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References
- 1 2 "Gentleman, Tobias". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10527.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 3 4 Pollard, Albert Frederick (1901). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 273.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Pollard, Albert Frederick (1901). "Gentleman, Tobias". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 273.
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