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- ↑ George Edward Cokayne, Complete Baronetage Exeter, William Pollard & Co., vol. 1 (1900), p. 21
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, 1:23
- ↑ Cokayne, Complete Baronetage 1:142-143
- 1 2 3 George Edward Cokayne, Complete Baronetage Exeter, William Pollard & Co., vol. 4 (1904), pp. 38–9
- ↑ Cokayne, Complete Baronetage,1:21-2
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, 1:22
- ↑ Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, 1:22-3
- 1 2 George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. VII, eds. Vicary Gibbs; H.A. Doubleday (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1926), pp. 637–638
- 1 2 3 Cokayne Complete Baronetage 1:142
- 1 2 Cokayne Complete Baronetage 1:143