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- ↑ Fisher (1986); see also the entry for his father at D.R. Fisher, "Drake, William I (1723-96), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986
- ↑ Fisher (1986). Their exact relationship is given in Burke (1837), p. 592, and is as follows: Sir John Garrard, third Baronet, had one child, a daughter, Jane, who married Montague Drake, an MP, and had Montague Garrard Drake, also an MP, whose son William was father of this Charles Drake; the sixth Baronet was a son of the third Baronet's younger brother.
- ↑ Fisher (1986) ; and also Burke (1837), p. 141, for parentage.
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593 ; Burke (1852), p. 459 ; Burke (1862), p. 370
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593 ; Burke (1852), p. 459
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593 ; Burke (1852), p. 459
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593 ; Burke (1852), p. 459
- ↑ Burke (1837), p. 593
- ↑ Fisher (1986)
- ↑ Fisher (1986)
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- Burke, B. (1865). Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
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