The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians

London: Macmillan, 1980

Anglo-Irish music : 1780-1830

Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1966, 246 p.

[biographical article]

Smith, Carleton Sprague Sprague-Smith, Carleton Wolfe, Richard J.

Appendix (I)

Smith, Carleton Sprague Sprague-Smith, Carleton Wolfe, Richard J.

British musical biography.
A dictionary of musical artists, authors and composers born in Britain and its colonies.

By James D. Brown and Stephen S. Stratton

Birmingham: S.S. Stratton, 1897, 462 p.

Sketches of the English glee composers, historical, biographical and critical
(from about 1735-1866)

London: William Reeves, 1896, 235 p.

Biographical dictionary of musicians.
With a bibliography of English writings on music

Paisley, Scotland: A. Gardner, 1886, 637 p.

A handbook of musical biography

London: W. Morley, 1883, 256 p.