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- ↑ "Election Intelligence". The Times . 3 October 1890. p. 5.
- ↑ By-election triggered by the resignation of Charles William Selwyn.
- ↑ The Constitutional Year Book, 1904, published by Conservative Central Office, page 140 (164 in web page), Cambridgeshire
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