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- ↑ Ingram Hill 1982, p. 10.
- ↑ "Lancelot Ridley". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23629.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)