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- ↑ A Scientific, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour: John (Fiott) Lee in Ireland, England and Wales, 1806–1807, ed. Angela Byrne, Routledge, 2018, p. 267
- ↑ A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, William Edward Hartpole Lecky, volume VIII, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890, p. 26-30
- ↑ The Irish Magazine, October 1810, p. 482
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Dunlop, Robert (1892). "Judkin-Fitzgerald, Sir Thomas". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.