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- ↑ As a former MLC and Minister of the Crown he was granted retention of the title of Honourable for life: "Retentions". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales . No. 74. 16 June 1995. p. 3252. Retrieved 15 October 2019– via Trove.
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