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- ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford . Macmillan. pp. 521–522. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
- ↑ The Honours Register of the University of Oxford: A record of University honours and distinctions, completed to the end of Trinity term, 1883. Clarendon Press. 1883. p. 8.
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