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- ↑ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Nowell, Thomas (1730?-1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 5 February 2024.
- J. J. Caudle, Nowell, Thomas (1730?–1801), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004.
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