1. Anthony Trollope, Is He Popenjoy? (Oxford University Press, 1986, 1st pub. 1878), vol. II, p. 286.
2. François Crouzet, The First Industrialists. The Problem of Origins (Cambridge University Press, 1985), notes (pp. 122–5) that at least 22 per cent of the early industrialists he examined were the sons of men who had interests in farming and mining, but that many of these were involved in more than farming — in trade and small manufacturing.
3. R. J. Morris, ‘The Middle-Class and the Property Cycle during the Industrial Revolution’, in T. C. Smout (ed.), The Search for Wealth and Stability. Essays in Economic and Social History presented to M. W. Flynn (London: Macmillan, 1979) pp. 91–113.
4. D. C. Coleman, ‘Gentlemen and Players’, Economic History Review, vol. 26, no. 1 (February, 1973) pp. 92–116.
5. Childers, The Life of Childers, vol. II, p. 294.