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- ↑ Malpas, John. Caversham Names. Reading: John Malpas, 1995, pp.33–34.
- ↑ The Academy to Educate the Sons of Liberal Gentlemen
- ↑ "Leonard, Robert Maynard" in The Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Proposals for Membership (1900), p. 7
