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Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Knight, John Joseph (1892). "Lee, Richard Nelson". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 32. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 371.
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