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- ↑ "The History of the PEF". pef.org.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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- ↑ Edwards, Edward (17 June 2010). Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870. Cambridge University Press. p. 43. ISBN 9781108014953.