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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p> <span class="geo-inline-hidden noexcerpt"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kensington_House_(academy)&params=51_30_7.53_N_0_11_11.46_W_"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">51°30′7.53″N</span> <span class="longitude">0°11′11.46″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial 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The school was operated by a variety of people until about 1813 or 1815.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After being operated as a Catholic boarding house from 1815 to 1825, it was the site of a private asylum beginning in 1830. </p><p>Kensington House was built along with Colby House, for <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Colby,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Colby, 1st Baronet">Sir Thomas Colby, 1st Baronet</a>. They were located off of Kensington High Street and near the main entrance to <a href="/wiki/Kensington_Palace" title="Kensington Palace">Kensington Palace</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Hutchings_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hutchings-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> across from <a href="/wiki/Hyde_Park,_London" title="Hyde Park, London">Hyde Park</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kensington_Gardens" title="Kensington Gardens">Kensington Gardens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LMG_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LMG-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Now, mansions have been built on the two sites in the area called Kensington Court.<sup id="cite_ref-Hutchings_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hutchings-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External images</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/pubid-366/images/fig20.gif">Diagram of Colby Court, Kensington House, and Kensington Court</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.geni.com/p13/90/67/ac/d1/5344483eddbbbe4e/old_kensington_court_original.jpg">Old Kensington Court</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=05_nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA773">Kensington House, 1776</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Colby,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Thomas Colby, 1st Baronet">Sir Thomas Colby, 1st Baronet</a> built Kensington House between 1688 and 1692. It was likely built in a double-pile (a <a href="/wiki/Central-passage_house" title="Central-passage house">central-passage house</a>) layout with narrow late-17th-century type windows. It was occupied by <a href="/wiki/Foot_Onslow" class="mw-redirect" title="Foot Onslow">Foot Onslow</a> until about 1698.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>George Davenant, the son of Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Davenant" title="William Davenant">William Davenant</a>, lived at Kensington House from 1699 to 1706 or later. An officer in the <a href="/wiki/Sovereign%27s_Bodyguard" title="Sovereign's Bodyguard">Royal Bodyguard</a>, he was the ratepayer until 1710, when he died. At the time of Davenant's death, though, his residence was in <a href="/wiki/St_Martin_in_the_Fields_(parish)" title="St Martin in the Fields (parish)">St Martin-in-the Fields</a>. The house was inhabited by the godmother of Davenant's son, Lady Susan Belasyse, <a href="/wiki/Baroness_Belasyse_of_Osgodby" class="mw-redirect" title="Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby">Baroness Belasyse of Osgodby</a> before 1710 and then it was inhabited at least three years by antiquarian John Bowack, until his death in 1713.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/William_Berkeley,_4th_Baron_Berkeley_of_Stratton" title="William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton">William Lord Berkeley</a>, a beneficiary of Baroness Belasyse's estate, inherited the house with the receipt of deeds in 1714 and 1716. In 1731, he sold it to <a href="/wiki/Lord_Anne_Hamilton#Personal_life_and_death" title="Lord Anne Hamilton">Mary Edwards</a> of <a href="/wiki/Welham,_Leicestershire" title="Welham, Leicestershire">Welham, Leicestershire</a> for £4,000. Situated on more than three acres, the property included the house that had been enlarged, as well as a coach-house, stables, a summer house, a barn, a brewhouse, a greenhouse, and a water house. With the property was an enclosed ten-acre garden. The estate was owned by Edwards, who resided there, and her descendants for seventy years. From 1746 to 1755, Count Petr Grigorevich Chernyshev, the Russian Ambassador in London lived there with his wife and two daughters.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academy">Academy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The school was operated by James Elphinstone, a Scottish educationalist, from 1756 to March 1776, as a boys' school.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A school may have operated continuously from that time until 1802 when the property was sold by <a href="/wiki/Sir_Gerard_Noel,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet">Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet</a>, the grandson of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Anne_Hamilton#Personal_life_and_death" title="Lord Anne Hamilton">Mary Edwards</a>, to Thomas Wetherell of <a href="/wiki/Hammersmith" title="Hammersmith">Hammersmith</a>, London.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_(futur_roi_Louis-Philippe)_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg/220px-Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="339" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg/330px-Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg/440px-Winterhalter_-_Louis-Philippe_d%27Orl%C3%A9ans_duc_de_Chartres_%28futur_roi_Louis-Philippe%29_%C3%A0_Reichenau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="659" data-file-height="1014" /></a><figcaption>During his exile, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis Philippe</a> was a teacher of geography, history, mathematics and modern languages, at a boys' boarding school in <a href="/wiki/Reichenau,_Switzerland" title="Reichenau, Switzerland">Reichenau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Prince Charles Victor de Broglio, a French émigré nobleman and cleric, leased the building for a French Jesuit school. The head of the academy, he operated to academy to cater to the children of French aristocrats that lived in London during the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>. One of the ushers was the future King <a href="/wiki/Louis_Philippe_I" title="Louis Philippe I">Louis Philippe I</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Charles_X_of_France" title="Charles X of France">Charles X of France</a>, who visited the school on one occasion.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/West_Indies" title="West Indies">West Indian</a> planters also sent their children to the school. Among students from the Caribbean were many of the children and grandchildren of <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Thomas_(entrepreneur)" title="Dorothy Thomas (entrepreneur)">Dorothy Thomas</a>, including her daughter <a href="/wiki/Dorothea_Christina_Thomas" title="Dorothea Christina Thomas">Dorothea Christina</a> and granddaughter <a href="/wiki/Henrietta_Simon_Sala" class="mw-redirect" title="Henrietta Simon Sala">Henrietta Simon Sala</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pybus_2013_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pybus_2013-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lalor_Sheil" title="Richard Lalor Sheil">Richard Lalor Sheil</a>, the Irish politician and dramatist, attended the school from 1802 to 1804. In 1806, Rev. Monsieur de Theil took over the lease. Melchier Strickler then leased the building in 1813.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Boarding_house">Boarding house</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Boarding house"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Antonio Salterelli and his wife operated a Catholic boarding establishment, with a house chapel, from 1815 to 1825. Their visitors included the actress and author <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Inchbald" title="Elizabeth Inchbald">Elizabeth Inchbald</a>, who lived there from 1819 until her death in August 1821. Inchbald had described Kensington House as "extremely genteel and cheerful, changing however too frequently for perfect cordiality and the formation of intimacy." Artist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Cosway" title="Richard Cosway">Richard Cosway</a> and his artist wife <a href="/wiki/Maria_Cosway" title="Maria Cosway">Maria Cosway</a> lived there for several months.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Asylum">Asylum</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Asylum"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 1825 to 1830, the building had no tenant listed in the rate books, but was marked "as in private tenure".<sup id="cite_ref-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Candlin_&_Pybus,_2015-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After sitting empty since 1825, the building became a private asylum in 1827<sup id="cite_ref-LMG_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LMG-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 1830.<sup id="cite_ref-British_History_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-British_History-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Treating nervous conditions and insanity, it was operated by William Finch of Madeley Villa.<sup id="cite_ref-LMG_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LMG-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wise_p._64_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wise_p._64-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1838, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Paternoster" title="Richard Paternoster">Richard Paternoster</a>, a former civil servant in the <a href="/wiki/East_India_Company" title="East India Company">East India Company</a>, stayed 41 days in William Finch's asylum at Kensington House having been detained following a disagreement with his father over money.<sup id="cite_ref-Wise_p._64_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wise_p._64-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> James Hill (father of <a href="/wiki/Octavia_Hill" title="Octavia Hill">Octavia Hill</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/Wisbech" title="Wisbech">Wisbech</a> corn merchant, banker, proprietor of the newspaper the <i>Star of the East</i> and founder of the United Advancement Society. He had been declared bankrupt and had been committed to Kensington House Asylum. After his release in 1851 the <a href="/wiki/Alleged_Lunatics%27_Friend_Society" title="Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society">Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society</a> helped him sue the proprietor of Kensington House, Dr Francis Philps, for wrongful confinement but the case was unsuccessful.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Grant_House">Grant House</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Grant House"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External image</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="image icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/16px-Searchtool.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/24px-Searchtool.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/61/Searchtool.svg/32px-Searchtool.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://looking-at-london.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Kensington-House-in-Graphic-Mag-cropped-1024x773.jpg">Kensington House that was built in the 1870s for Albert Grant</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Colby House and Kensington House were demolished in 1872 for the construction of a house for <a href="/wiki/Albert_Grant_(company_promoter)" title="Albert Grant (company promoter)">Albert Grant</a><sup id="cite_ref-Hutchings_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hutchings-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Supreme_Court_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supreme_Court-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that cost about £250,000. Due to financial difficulties, it was sold for just a little more than £10,000, and was demolished in 1883.<sup id="cite_ref-Hutchings_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hutchings-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although construction had been completed, it was never occupied.<sup id="cite_ref-Supreme_Court_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Supreme_Court-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milestone_Hotel" title="Milestone Hotel">Milestone Hotel</a>, built on the former site of Colby House and Kensington House</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kensington_House_(academy)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output 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