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- ↑ Rathbone, R W. "Darvall, Sir John Bayley (1809 - 1883)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538 . Retrieved 8 September 2014– via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ↑ "Sir John Bayley Darvall MA, QC (1809-1883)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- ↑ "Writ of election: West Sydney". New South Wales Government Gazette (139). 28 June 1865. p. 1433. Retrieved 7 September 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ Green, Antony. "July 1865 West Sydney by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 7 September 2020.
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