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- ↑ Hart, Robert. William Benbow Humphreys. In Now & Then: Newsletter of the Historical Society of Kimberley. June 2009.
- ↑ Hart, Robert. William Benbow Humphreys. In Now & Then: Newsletter of the Historical Society of Kimberley. June 2009.