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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "Mr Donald Currie in Greenock" . Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette . 15 May 1878. p. 2. Retrieved 31 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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- ↑ "Sir Scott Moncrieff and His Creditors" . Greenock Telegraph and Clyde Shipping Gazette . 9 July 1878. p. 3. Retrieved 31 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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