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- ↑ "No. 12604". The London Gazette . 18 December 1784. p. 1.
- ↑ John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Volume 1, H. Colburn, 1833), 351.
- ↑ John Burke, A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (Volume 1, H. Colburn, 1833), 351.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
- George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Baronetage, volume VI (Exeter, 1906) pages 414-416