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- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 3)
- 1 2 A. D. McDonnell (2000). The life of Sir Denis Henry: Catholic Unionist. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 9780901905949 . Retrieved 30 December 2010.
- ↑ "Who's Who" . Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ↑ "No. 76". The Belfast Gazette . 15 December 1922. p. 712.
