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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- 1 2 3 4 "GOVERNMENT VICTORY IN HILLHEAD". The Glasgow Herald. 11 June 1937. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
- ↑ Whitaker's Almanack, 1939
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