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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 1)
- 1 2 3 "Obituary - John Craig". The Times. No. 36859. London. 29 August 1902. p. 7.
- 1 2 Craig, F.W.S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester, UK: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 157. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
