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- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 226–227. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 21 December 2020.)
- 1 2 Thomas Hassell, CricketArchive. Retrieved 24 October 2017. (subscription required)