Further Reading
- The Times, Obituary, 21 November 1933
- Augustine Birrell: Politician and Author by Pat Jalland in Dictionary of National Biography OUP, 2004–08
- Augustine Birrell by Alvin Jackson, entry in Dictionary of Liberal Biography, Brack et al. (eds.) Politico's, 1998
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