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- ↑ "Death notice: Jack Leslie VERNON". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
- Kidd, Charles, ed. (1903). Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London: Dean and son. p. 590.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [ self-published source ][ better source needed ]
