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- ↑ John Hanmer (1st baron) (1876). A Memorial of the Parish and Family of Hanmer in Flintshire ... priv. Press at the Chiswick Press. p. 180.
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- ↑ Dodd, Arthur Herbert. Hanmer family. Dictionary of Welsh Biography, online edition. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
- ↑ Bunbury, Henry Edward, ed. (1838). The correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer ... with a memoir of his life, to which are added, other relicks of a gentleman's family. London: Edward Moxon. pp. 4–5. [Bunbury was Thos. Hanmer's brother-in-law.]
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