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- ↑ "1967 By Election Results". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- British Parliamentary by-elections: Honiton 1967
- 1966 general election results Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine at Richard Kimber's political science resources
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [ self-published source ][ better source needed ]