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695:. Parish of St George, Hanover Square: HMSO. 1881. p. 39.
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477:"Wanderers v Oxford Amalgamation Club".
764:. Eton: Eton College. 1903. p. 40.
451:. Eton: Eton College. 1903. p. 40.
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587:"The Civil Service v The Gitanos".
602:"Royal Engineers v Old Etonians".
352:in goal; the Wanderers won 3ā0.
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722:"Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge"
632:"Old Etonians v Clapham Rovers".
572:"The Gitanos v Harrow Chequers".
512:"Gitanos v Westminster School".
421:"The story of Ampfield Vicarage"
851:People educated at Eton College
789:"Death of a barrister-at-law".
466:. Oxford: O.U.P. p. 1582.
302:in February 1874, both at the
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662:"Royal Engineers v Gitanos".
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876:Accidental deaths from falls
762:Eton College Register vol. 3
647:"Wanderers v Old Etonians".
449:Eton College Register vol. 3
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617:"Old Etonians v Pilgrims".
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527:"Wanderers v Gitanos".
462:Foster, Joseph (1888).
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557:"Uxbridge v Gitanos".
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404:Lodge, Edmund (1907).
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542:"Notes and notions".
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492:"Foot-ball matches".
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791:Hampshire Advertiser
726:Newcastle University
677:"Calls to the Bar".
419:Hallett, Elizabeth.
256:in November 1869.
250:University of Oxford
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649:Sportsman
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385:Middlesex
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246:Wanderers
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166:1874ā1976
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