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- ↑ "BECKFORD, Richard (d.1796), of Nicholas Lane, Lombard St., London | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2023-01-10.
- ↑ Lees, Rebecca (October 28, 2020). "Who were the first MPs from ethnic minority backgrounds?" – via commonslibrary.parliament.uk.
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- ↑ Goodrich, Amanda (2019-02-07). Henry Redhead Yorke, Colonial Radical: Politics and Identity in the Atlantic World, 1772-1813. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-61883-3.
