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- 1 2 3 "NOTES BY THE WAY". The Ormskirk Advertiser. Lancashire, England. 3 October 1940. Retrieved 6 November 2024– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "M.P. FOR PRESTON – Death Of Mr. A. C. Moreing". Liverpool Daily Post. 12 July 1940. Retrieved 6 November 2024– via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 Wheatcroft, Geoffrey (2021). Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy. Random House. p. 250. ISBN 9781473566378.
- ↑ "Northern By-Elections". The Times. 13 September 1940. Retrieved 6 November 2024– via The Times Digital Archive.
- ↑ Swift, John (2011). "Randolph Churchill and the General Election in Preston, 1945: Bucking the Trend". Northern History. 48 (1): 123–144. doi:10.1179/174587011X12928631621393.