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- ↑ "Genealogy Of The Family Of Grenier Of Ceylon" (PDF). The Dutch Burgher Union.org. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The late Sir Samuel Grenier". The Graphic. 4 February 1893. p. 24.
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