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- 1 2 "Milestone is marked for hotel". Cumberland News. 3 November 2006. Retrieved 1 August 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "Obituary: Sir George Mills McKay". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 20 July 1937.
- ↑ "City Sheriffs Elected". The Times . 25 June 1921. p. 7.