Excerpt from Nine Famous Birmingham Men: Lectures Delivered in the University IT hardly needs to be said that these are only a few of the men who have been the spiritual builders of the city of Birmingham as we know it, or who have otherwise lent it lustre. Besides those selected for the present course, the names of Boulton, Sturge, Cox, Vince, Bunce, Short house, Lightfoot, Benson (to confine ourselves to the past) readily occur. Of the nine, only a few are Birmingham men in the sense of having been born in the town. But there is no reason why a city should not take as much credit for attracting as for giving birth to distinguished men. Birmingham has had a happy gift for this method of attachment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.