References for Brian Blood and the Blood Family:

• What's in a Name? - Blood or Purdy
• thePeerage.com - general information
• Irish Origins (requires a subscription)
• Collections on Burke's Peerage and Gentry
• Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899 ISBN: 1-84630-045-2
• Baron Inchiquin
• Clare County Library - Genealogy
• The Annals of Kilfenora or Ye Citie of the Crosses by Charles Ffrench Blake-Forster
• Bob Blood - personal communications
• Linkpendium Blood Family
• The Blood Family Archive
• The Blood Family Tree - a lot of useful information about the family
• The Strutt Family
• Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland Journals 1888-1916
• The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland: St Fachtnan, Kilfenora, Clare
• Churches with Round Towers in Northern Clare by Thomas Johnson Westropp : Kilnaboy Church and Round Tower
• Culcheth including information about the Holcroft family
• The Holcroft Family
• Ros or de Ros Family
• Baron de Ros
• Historical Genealogical Architectural Notes on Some Houses of Clare by Hugh Weir. Ballinakella Press, Ireland 1986, ISBN: 0-9465-3800-X
• Colonel Thomas Blood
• Colonel Blood - The Man who Stole the Crown Jewels by David C. Hanrahan. Sutton Publishing 2003, ISBN: 0-7509-3328-3
• Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685 by Alan Marshall
• Thomas Blood by Bill Hutchings
• The Diary of John Evelyn p.332
• The King, the Crown and the Colonel: How did Thomas Blood try to steal the crown jewels in 1671?
• Iter Lancastrense by Richardi Jamesii with notes about the Heywood Family
• Heywood's of Heywood in Lancashire, & the Nunnery in the Isle of Man
• The Manners Family
• Stanton's Wanton Wench - The Countess of Buckingham, suspected of poisoning King James I
• Tyldesley Family History
• Colonel Holcroft Blood extract from The Royal Artillery by W. Y. Carman & Michael Roffe
• Carlisle Historical Society
• The Concord Magazine March-April-May 2002
• Benjamin Paul Blood
• A History of Irish Music by William H. Grattan Flood - Chapter XXIII
• Mary Wollstonecraft from which the information about her friendship with Frances Blood has been taken
• The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft
• Her Own Woman - The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - By Diane Jacobs (New York Times on the Web)
• A true patriot, right down to her emerald stockings by Mark Bostridge
• Wargrave Local History Society - Caversham Park
• A Visitation of the Seats and Arms of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland by Bernard Burke
• Memoirs of the Archdales With the Descents of Some Allied Families
• The Roe Family - although Caroline Roe is mistakenly shown as marrying a Mr. Hood rather than Matthew Blood (1724 or 1730-1794)
• Some Anglo-Irish Copper Mining Tokens Of The Late Eighteenth Century
• Charles Roe and Company
• The Bindon Family
• The Damer Family
• Lady Colin Campbell - Victorian 'Sex Goddess' by G.H. Fleming. The Windrush Press 1989, ISBN: 0-9000-7511-2
• Lady Colin Campbell (1857-1911) - preparatory information by Anne Jordan
• The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler - project director: Professor Nigel Thorp
• The Adams Family
• Chartres Brew of County Clare, Ireland - Brew family and Applevale, Corofin
• The Bagot Lineage in Australia
• Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Emigration
• A History of Music at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin by Barra Boydell
• The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston Churchill
• Royal Engineers Museum
• The Docklands - Bindon Blood Stoney (1828-1909)
• Selected Prose of Louis MacNeice - discussing Brian Inglis, the writer
• Wendy Blood - biography
• Phineas Finn The Irish Member (book pub. 1869) by Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)