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- ↑ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p251: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
- ↑ Keble organ scholars Archived 2019-04-13 at the Wayback Machine , Keble College
- ↑ Christopher S. Anderson, Twentieth-Century Organ Music, 2013 p.299
- ↑ The Organ - Issues 271-282. 1990, p.156
- ↑ John Sykes, British Music Collection
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