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- ↑ "Ambassador's wife turned archaeologist" Financial Times, 24 January 2009. Other obituaries appeared in The Independent (15 January 2009), and The Guardian (3 December 2008). Braithwaite's Guardian tribute to his late wife lists their five children.
- British Diplomatic Oral History Programme
- Rodric Braithwaite. Jill Braithwaite obituary 3 December 2008.
