SUTTON,+Charles+William

SUTTON, Charles William (1848-1920) Manchester 1865-1920 (DL 1874, CL 1879) An exceptional self-educated bookman, he built up MANCHESTER's reference library stock, the foundations of which had been securely laid by Edward Edwards, into that of one of the foremost provincial institutions. The lending services, also, were not neglected, and by the outbreak of World War I the MANCHESTER service as a whole bore, for the first time, basic resemblances to that of today, apart, of course, from the central library building which was not opened until 1934. Sutton also became well known outside MANCHESTER as historian and antiquary and was an important contributor to the //DNB//. In company with Henry Tedder he classically unites the librarianship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

b. Manchester vice-pres. of LA (YB 1897, 171 with PHOTO)