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- 1 2 3 4 5 Yule Newsletter no. 23 (1998)
- ↑ "Obituary – Andrew Yule". The Times. No. 36828. London. 24 July 1902. p. 10.
- ↑ Sir David Yule
- ↑ Richard Davenport-Hines, 'Yule, Annie Henrietta, Lady Yule (1874/5–1950)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 17 Dec 2013