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- ↑ "New Year's Honours List, Barbados" The Times (London, England), Tuesday, December 31, 2002, Issue 67647, p.9.
- ↑ "Pollard, Lawrence Edwin" . Who's Who . A & C Black. 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U10000140.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ London Gazette
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