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- ↑ ‘NICHOLSON, Sir Charles Christian’, Who's Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Aug 2016
- ↑ www.burkespeerage.com