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- ↑ Venn, John & Venn, John Archibald. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Cambridge University Press Part II vol. vi p390
- ↑ J. K. Laughton, ‘Huntley, Sir Henry Vere (1795–1864)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 accessed 13 Feb 2017
- ↑ Dictionary of Canadian Biography
