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- ↑ "Official Roll of the Baronetage". Standing Council of the Baronetage. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
- ↑ Standing Council of the Baronetage analysis
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment' s baronetage page [Usurped!]