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- ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p151 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p795: Oxford, OUP, 1929
- ↑ "ABCD: a basic church dictionary" Meakin, T: Norwich, Canterbury Press, 2001 ISBN 978-1-85311-420-5