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Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, ed. L. G. Pine 1965–1972: 18th edition Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Vol. 1 & 2 1965–9, ed. Peter Townend; Vol. 3 1972 (with Index to all three Volumes) ed. Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd: 3 2001–2006: 19th edition
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank but Uninvested with Heritable Honours, 4 volumes (1833–1838) (subsequently published as Burke's Landed Gentry): Vol.1, London, 1836 (archive.org) Vol.2, London, 1835. Vol.2, ("Small Paper Edition"), London, 1837
[18] [19] Subsequent editions were re-titled A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; or, Commons of Great Britain and Ireland or Burke's Landed Gentry. [19] The popularity of Burke's Landed Gentry gave currency to the expression Landed Gentry as a description of the untitled upper classes in England (although the book also ...
Burke's Peerage Limited is a British genealogical publisher, considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage , baronetage ...
Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment. Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain. Vol. 1 (19, illustrated ed.). Burke's Peerage. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5. Georgiana, Dowager Lady De Ros.
His parents were John Round (died 1887), a barrister, of West Bergholt, Essex, [1] and Laura, the daughter of the poet Horatio Smith (died 1864). His family history appears in Burke's Landed Gentry , a publication he regularly criticised for its inaccuracies, although there is no reason to doubt the accuracy of the entry for his family.
Burke Ramsey has only publicly spoken out once about sister JonBenét Ramsey's murder since her death in 1996. Burke was 9 when his 6-year-old sister was found dead in the basement of their ...
From 1935 to 1940, Pine was an assistant editor at Burke's Peerage Ltd. During World War II he was an officer in the Royal Air Force intelligence branch, serving in North Africa, Italy, Greece and India; he retired with the rank of Squadron Leader. After the war and until 1960, he was Burke's executive director.