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- ↑ The year of his birth in the certificate is indistinct and has been read mistakenly as '1868' in his Who was Who entry, and as '1866' elsewhere.
- ↑ Births, marriages and deaths information available at the General Register Office for Scotland, Scotland's People Centre in Edinburgh, and also at "scotlandspeople.gov.uk" . Retrieved 4 August 2016..
- 1 2 3 Who was Who. (1941) London: Adam & Charles Black, 2nd ed. 1967, Vol. IV, 1941-1950, pp. 803-804.
- ↑ Cf. http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/home.php?action=lib&scope=directory&role_id=50103 Archived 22 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Information from www.ancestry.com
- ↑ Publications as listed in the British Library catalogue, available at http://www.bl.uk
