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- ↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Volume IX, Ministers of the Church from the Union of the Churches 2 October 1928 to 31 December 1954, page 804
- ↑ Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Volume X, Ministers of the Church from 1 January 1955 to 31 December 1975, page 458
- ↑ Jonathan Brodie
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