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- ↑ "The British Honours System". www.churchill-society-london.org.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ↑ "Knight Bachelor", Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved 5 April 2020.
- ↑ "Guide to the Honours". BBC News. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- ↑ Shaw records his name as "John Lowe McCraith", but he is "John Tom" in Walford's County Families (1919, p. 861); see also "The New Local Knights: Mr J. T. McCraith", Nottingham Evening Post, 9 November 1904, p. 3.