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References
- 1 2 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)
- ↑ Funerary monument for Hon. Elizabeth Barbara Halford:"To the memory of the Honourable ELIZABETH BARBARA daughter of JOHN, eleventh LORD ST JOHN of Bletsoe and wife to Sir HENRY HALFORD, of Wistow, Baronet.". Retrieved 12 March 2009. The numbering used by the family is one less than the official rumbering used in Burke etc.
- ↑ "No. 19008". The London Gazette . 28 December 1832. p. 2837.
- 1 2 Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 417. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
