1. J. Bateman, The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland (1883) p. 470.
2. N. Gash, Politics in the Age of Peel (1953) p. 188.
3. F. E. Gillespie, Labour and Politics in England ( Durham, North Carolina, 1927 ) p. 177.
4. M. Cowling, 1867 - Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution (Cambridge, 1967) p. 290. In the heat of the franchise debate in the spring of 1866, John Bright dubbed Elcho’s anti-reform group ‘The Cave of Adullam’, a sarcastic allusion to King David who gathered the distressed and discontented of Israel into the Cave of Adullam. C.f. I Samuel 22.
5. D. Simon, ‘Master and Servant’, in J. Saville (ed.), Democracy and the Labour Movement (1954) p. 190.