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- ↑ Edgar Cyril Rushton – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ↑ Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, Western Australia: Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. p. 79. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
- ↑ Frederick Charles, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 17 February 2017.