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- ↑ HANSARD 1803–2005 - People - Mr Timothy Byng
- ↑ Vacher's Parliamentary Companion, No. 1092, December 1998, P137
- ↑ Hui, Silvia; "Viscount’s story like a real-life Downton Abbey", The Chronicle Herald , 14 April 2013. Retrieved with Wayback Machine, 14 October 2020
