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- ↑ "British Airways Liner Lost: M.P. Drowned With Four Others, Crash Off Danish Coast". The Times. No. 48385. London. 16 August 1939. p. 10.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- ↑ Unionist Victory at Stretford The Times, 11 December 1939, p. 5
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