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- ↑ Brook Knight, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 314–315. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)
- 1 2 Corder J Brook John Knight, Akin to Jane. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
- ↑ Capt BJ Knight, War Memorial Register, Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 2018-10-10.
