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- ↑ Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-928429-0. Leonard Hutchinson and the arrival of undergraduates, Pages 93–99.
- ↑ Alan Crossley, C. R. Elrington (Editors), A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock (1990), Bladon: Church, pp. 31–34.
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