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- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "Archibald Roberton". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 1 January 2011.[ unreliable source ]
- 1 2 3 4 "Kincardine,Earl of (S,1647)". Cracroft’s Peerage. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ↑ Lundy, Darryl. "William Bruce, 8th Earl of Kincardine". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 1 January 2011.[ unreliable source ]
- ↑ John Debrett (1816). The peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland. F.C. and J. Rivington. pp. 708–. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
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