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- ↑ "Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy-Chairman". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . House of Commons. 10 March 1943. col. 699.
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- ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3645.
- ↑ The peerage.com, entry for 1st Lord Milner of Leeds
