Bernard Henry Becker (1833– ) was a British writer born in 1833; the year of his death is unknown. Public information about him is limited, and most details of his life cannot be verified, so what is known comes chiefly from his writings. One work by him is held in this collection, Disturbed Ireland, whose title indicates his attention to the social and political conditions of nineteenth-century Ireland. Other sources mention his book Scientific London, which records the scientific institutions and related activities of nineteenth-century London. His writing therefore drew on direct observation and tended toward social and institutional subjects with a documentary character. Overall, Becker is not a widely known author; his works have circulated little and scholarly material on him is scarce, leaving his historical standing and the full range of his writing to be further examined.
