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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- ↑ "The Candidates for Salford" . Dundee Evening Telegraph . 10 April 1877. p. 3. Retrieved 19 January 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
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