The brief account here given is compiled from the following works, in each of which further details of interest may be found:—
Hutton’s History of Birmingham. Sixth Edition, 1835.
Langford’s Century of Birmingham Life, 1868.
Langford’s Modern Birmingham and its Institutions, 1873-1877.
Dawson’s Inaugural Address at opening of Reference Library, 1866.
Dent’s Old and New Birmingham, 1880.
Centenary of the Birmingham Library, by Sam: Timmins, 1879.
Showell’s Dictionary of Birmingham, 1885.