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- ↑ Osborne dedicated the second part of Advice to a Son to "My dear brother William Draper esq. of Netherworton, Oxfordshire"
- 1 2 3 W R Williams The Parliamentary History of the County of Oxford
- ↑ Will of William Draper, Gentleman, of Nether Worton, Oxfordshire 29 March 1672 National Archives PROB 11/338/407
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| Preceded by Not represented in Rump Parliament | Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire 1653 With: Sir Charles Wolseley Dr Jonathan Goddard | Succeeded by Charles Fleetwood Robert Jenkinson William Lenthall James Whitelocke Nathaniel Fiennes |