Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
John Cannon, Petty , William, second earl of Shelburne and first marquess of Lansdowne (17371805), first published 2004; online edn, May 2010, 9483 words, with portrait illustration
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/22070
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