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- ↑ Spicer 2014 , pp. 70–71
- ↑ Spicer 2014 , pp. 71
- 1 2 Clinch 2017
- ↑ Matthew-Walker 2014
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- Spicer, Paul (2014). Sir George Dyson: His Life and Music. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84383-903-3.
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