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- ↑ History of Parliament Online- Browne, George
- ↑ Knights of England
- 1 2 'The borough of Leamington Spa', A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6: Knightlow hundred (1951), pp. 155-161. Date accessed: 9 March 2011
- ↑ John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies