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- ↑ Patricia Summerling, The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History, Wakefield Press, 2011, p. 126
- 1 2 J. J. Pascoe, History of Adelaide and Vicinity: With a General Sketch of the Province of South Australia and Biographies of Representative Men, Hussey & Gillingham, 1901, p. 342
- ↑ Alick Downer, Sir Alexander Downer, The Downers of South Australia, Wakefield Press, 2012, p. 83
- ↑ Haydon Manning, 'Rymill, Sir Arthur Campbell (1907–1989)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rymill-sir-arthur-campbell-14182/text25194, published in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 7 September 2014.
- ↑ Australian Polo Federation: Members states and clubs Archived 7 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Google Books