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- ↑ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p370: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ↑ "Fifty years of disestablishment" Patton, H.E. p346: Dublin; Association Promoting Christian Knowledge; 1922
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