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- ↑ "East Suffolk Election" . Dublin Evening Post. 7 May 1870. Retrieved 23 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "East Suffolk Election, Colonel Adair's SEVENTH defeat" . The Ipswich Journal. 4 June 1870. Retrieved 23 July 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.