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- 1 2 "Hall, Sir William (Joseph)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette , 13 June 2009 (issue 59090) p. 3.
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