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- ↑ John C. Appleby, ‘Grant, Sir Alexander Cray, eighth baronet (1782–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2009.
- ↑ "Summary of Individual | Legacies of British Slavery". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
