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- ↑ Carlaw D (2020) Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914 (revised edition), pp. 202–203. (Available online at the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 7 August 2022.)
- ↑ "TEAMS WILLIAM HAMMOND PLAYED FOR". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 22 November 2013.