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- ↑ "Election News – Pontefract" . Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 17 December 1868. p. 3. Retrieved 30 June 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Election Intelligence – Pontefract" . London Evening Standard. 22 December 1868. p. 3. Retrieved 30 June 2021– via British Newspaper Archive.
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