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- "Alan Cochrane [profile]", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 25 May 2009
- Ritchie, Murray (2000), Scotland reclaimed: The inside story of Scotland's first democratic parliamentary election, Edinburgh: The Saltire Society, ISBN 0-85411-077-1
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