George Offor

George Offor (1787– 7 August 1864) was an English book-collector who accumulated a massive personal library.[1]

Offor entered business as a bookseller at Tower Hill, London. He studied Hebrew, Greek and Latin and became an expert in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and theological writings.[2]

  1. ^ "Mr George Offor". The Morning Post. 20 August 1864. p. 5.
  2. ^ "Offor, George (1787–1864)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20569. Retrieved 25 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)