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- ↑ "Stroud Election Petition" . Birmingham Daily Post . 3 July 1874. p. 6. Retrieved 21 January 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "House of Commons". www.leighrayment.com. Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ↑ F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (2nd edition, Aldershot: Parliamentary Research Services, 1989)
- ↑ "Stroud" . Western Daily Mercury. 24 July 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 21 January 2018– via British Newspaper Archive.
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