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- ↑ Monck changed his surname to Middleton in 1876
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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "Durham City Nomination" . York Herald. 10 June 1874. p. 5. Retrieved 29 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.