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- ↑ Lodge, Edmund (1859). The genealogy of the existing British peerage and baronetage: containing the family histories of the nobility. With the arms of the peers. Hurst and Blackett. p. 837.
- ↑ Christopher Simon Sykes (2004). The Big House. p. 57.
- ↑ Stirnet