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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "1946 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ↑ Scottish Conservative and Unionist Central Office, The Yearbook for Scotland (1967), p.86
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