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Charles Gordon Mosley (14 September 1948 – 5 November 2013) was a British genealogist who specialised in British nobility. He was an author, broadcaster, editor, and publisher, best known for having been Editor-in-Chief of Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (106th edition)—its first update since 1970—and of the re-titled 107th edition, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (2003).
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 ...
Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition. Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XIII, p. 461. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 499.
Sir Bernard Burke, Norroy and Ulster King of Arms's Arms of Office. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the names and families of those with titles (specifically peers and baronets, less often including those with the non-hereditary title of knight) were often listed in books or manuals known as "Peerages", "Baronetages", or combinations of these categories, such as the "Peerage, Baronetage ...
John Burke (12 November 1786 – 27 March 1848) [1] [note 1] was an Irish genealogist, and the original publisher of Burke's Peerage. He was the father of Sir Bernard Burke , a British officer of arms and genealogist.
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. Winks, Robin W. (1997). The Blacks in Canada: A History (second ed.). McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-77351-632-8. Lodge, Edmund (1859). Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage (knightage & Companionage) of the British Empire. Hurst ...
In c. 1718, he married his cousin, Anne Holman (d. 1725), daughter of George Holman and Anastasia Howard.Together, they were the parents of: [1] William Matthias Stafford-Howard, 3rd Earl of Stafford (1719–1751), who married Henrietta Cantillon, daughter of economist Richard Cantillon and Mary Mahony (a daughter of wealthy merchant Count Daniel O'Mahony), in 1743. [7]
In 1853 Burke was appointed Ulster King of Arms. [1] In 1854, he was knighted. In 1855, he became Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland. [2] After having devoted his life to genealogical studies he died in Dublin on 12 December 1892. He was succeeded as editor of Burke's Peerage and Landed Gentry by his fourth son, Ashworth Peter Burke. [2]