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- ↑ Biographies of Members of the Northern Ireland House of Commons Archived 26 February 2019 at the Wayback Machine , United Kingdom Election Results
- ↑ Henry Patterson, Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland Since 1945, p.66
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