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- ↑ "PENSARN, ABERGELE, NORTH WALES: The Thirteenth Annual North of Wales (Open) Lawn Tennis Tournament will be held on the Lawn Tennis Ground, Pensarn, On Tuesday, August 6th, to Saturday. August 10th this year" . Denbighshire Free Press. Denbigh, Denbighshire, Wales: British Newspaper Archive. 29 June 1895. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- 1 2 "Tournaments:Pensarn" . The Tennis Base. Tennismem SL. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ↑ "Advertisements & Notices: Lawn Tennis. A Grand Tournament, open to all bon-a-fide Members of Clubs in Carnarvonshire, Denbighshire and Anglesey, will be held on the gronuds of the Pensarn Club, Abergele next week to play for the North of Wales Challenge Cup" . North Wales Chronicle. Caernarfonshire, Wales: British Newspaper Archive. 1 August 1885. p. 4. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
- ↑ "Obituary". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. 1895. p. 319.
- ↑ Sutton, Charles William (1901). . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. p. 172-173.