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- ↑ "Election Intelligence". The Times. 22 June 1908. pp. 9 col. 2.
- ↑ "No. 29671". The London Gazette . 18 July 1916. p. 7093.
- ↑ "Deaths". The Times . 21 February 1921. p. 1.
