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- ↑ James Walton, CricketArchive. Retrieved 2020-06-06. (subscription required)
- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), p. 550. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.)