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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Hunt, William (1886). "Birchington, Stephen". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 05. London: Smith, Elder & Co.- Ramsay, Nigel (October 2006). "Stephen Birchington" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2440 . Retrieved 10 October 2012.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
