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- ↑ ‘MILNER OF LEEDS’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014.
- ↑ The peerage.com, entry for 3rd Lord Milner of Leeds
- ↑ Debrett's Peerage. 2019. p. 3645.
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