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- ↑ "Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)", George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p14: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ↑ “Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 3” Cotton, H p147: Dublin, Hodges, 1848-1878
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