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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ "To the electors of Bath" . Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette . 2 October 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 27 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
- ↑ "Local Intelligence" . Downpatrick Recorder . 11 October 1873. p. 2. Retrieved 27 December 2017– via British Newspaper Archive.
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