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- ↑ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M p472: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
- ↑ 'Deaths' Caledonian Mercury (Edinburgh, Scotland), Thursday, 7 December 1843; Issue 19326
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