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- ↑ Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860) George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p. 269: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ↑ "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p. 108: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
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