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- ↑ Text of the Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk . Retrieved 3 may 2011.
- ↑ London Gazette, issue 27864, published 15 December 1905
- ↑ "Obituary – The Mackintosh of Mackintosh", The Times, 15 November 1938
- ↑ London Gazette, issue 34588, published 10 January 1939
- ↑ "No. 24087". The Edinburgh Gazette . 5 November 1996. p. 2689.
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