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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Doyle, John Andrew (1895). "Panton, Thomas (1731-1808)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 185–186.
