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- Am Baile: highland history and culture (website accessed on 14 June 2010).
- Alexander Macbain, Personal Names and Surnames of the Town of Inverness (Inverness, The Northern Counties Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd, 1895), at pp. 87–88 (1720 to 1895)
- ↑ Highland News web-site (13 August 2012), Row as new Inverness Provost is elected; accessed on 26 September 2012
- 1 2 Highland Council news release (13 August 2012), Election of new Leader and Provost of Inverness Archived 4 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine ; web-site accessed on 26 September 2012
- ↑ The Inverness Courier, 29 June 2007, Globe-trotting Bob aiming to engineer a bright future [ permanent dead link ]; web-site accessed on 11 June 2010
- ↑ Highland Council news release (4 August 2008), New Provost of Inverness appointed Archived 3 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine ; web-site accessed on 11 June 2010
- ↑ Provost and Leader of Inverness and Area re-elected, 19 June 2017, Highland Council web-site (accessed on 3 May 2018)