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- ↑ "The St Ives Election Petition" . Cornish Telegraph. 24 February 1875. p. 3. Retrieved 19 January 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "St Ives". The Cornishman. No. 7. 29 August 1878.
- ↑ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
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