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JRULM: The John Rylands Library, Deansgate: An Illustrated Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | John Rylands, son of Joseph Rylands and Elizabeth Pilkington, whose nephew Richard founded the glass-making company, was born in St Helens in 1801, became Manchester’s most successful cotton magnate and one of the wealthiest ‘self-made’ Englishmen of his day. |
 | | Mrs Rylands always intended that everyone in Manchester and beyond should be able to appreciate the architectural glories of her memorial to her husband, and exhibition cases were installed to give the public the opportunity to view some of the Library’s treasures. |
 | | Douglas A Farnie, ‘John Rylands of Manchester’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 75.2 (1993), 3-103. |
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