Talk:Joseph Firbank

"and inspiring confidence in those for whom he had to work"
A Google book search on "and inspiring confidence in those for whom he had to work" returns half a dozen sources. One of them is the source the DNB used:

It is only available online in snippet formation but doing further text searches on the book returns:

The first quote using "the class of" is attributed to the same speech but is phrased slightly differently and would appear to be from another source:

--PBS (talk) 03:37, 9 November 2011 (UTC)