Thomas Thalric Harman, Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham… (1885)
“ A more benevolent lover of his fellow man than Kyrle cannot be named, and a society tor cultivating purity of taste, and a delight in aiding the well-being of others, is rightly called after him. The Birmingham Kyrle Society was established in 1880, and frequent paragraphs in the local papers tell us of their doings, at one time cheering the inmates of the institutions where the sick and unfortunate lie, with music and song, and at another distributing books, pictures, and flowers, where they are prized by those who are too poor to purchase. ”
