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- ↑ Barber, Richard (2004). The Story of Ludgrove. Oxford: Guidon Publishing. p. 259. ISBN 0-9543617-2-5.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, p. 640.
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