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- ↑ "Christopher W Purves" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007: Oct-Nov-Dec 1960 / Cambridge / Mother's Maiden Name: Stevens /Volume: 4a / Page 375"
- ↑ "Purves (Mrs) Hilda Jean MB BS 1953 (formerly Stevens)", "Purves, Michael Jarvie MB BS 1954", The Medical Register Part 2 (1985), p. 2960
- 1 2 Erica Jeal, "Christopher Purves" in Opera (2009), vol. 60, p. 516, "Purves sings his first Falstaff at Glyndebourne this month... Home was Cambridge, where as a boy treble he sang in the choir of King's College. ... (Gerald Finley was the fellow bass of his year group: the tenor Mark Padmore was in the year above.)"
- 1 2 "Christopher Purves", opera-rara.com, accessed 27 March 2023
- ↑ "PURVES Christopher Watt K BA83 MA87" in Cambridge University List of Members (Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 639
- ↑ Julian Flanagan, "From Harvey and the Wallbangers to Covent Garden: Christopher Purves interviewed", The Spectator , 1 June 2013
- ↑ "STAR TEACHER: Pupils sing praises of their musical Miss", Oxford Mail , 22 July 2011, accessed 27 March 2023
