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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Cust, Lionel Henry (1897). "Sherlock, William (fl.1759-1806)". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
