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- ↑ Cokayne, George Edward. "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom" (Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000), XII/2:285.
- ↑ The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, ed. (1910). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 1 (2 ed.). London. pp. 324–5.
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