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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1891). "Hart, Andro". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
