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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.
Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time (Heritage Books, London, 1840) Charles Mosley (Ed.), Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage: Clan Chiefs, Scottish Feudal Barons (107th Edition, Burke's Peerage Ltd, London, 2003)
Charles Gordon Mosley FRSA (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).
William Bortrick FRSA [1] (born 30 April 1973) [2] [3] is a British genealogist who is the owner, chairman and editor of Burke's Peerage. [4]Per the pedigree in the publication he edits, Bortrick claims descent from the fourth Lord Borthwick through his daughter Margaret- who married the unrelated Sir John Borthwick, himself "of obscure origins ... not, as has been claimed, a son of William ...
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.
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.
Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, as rebuilt by Buckler Arms of Grandison sculpted on an oriel window at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk.. Upon the death of his father on 22 November 1829, he succeeded as the 6th Baronet Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh, [3] becoming the head of a distinguished Roman Catholic family which had "for several generations formed alliances with some of the most illustrious families of the peerage."
Edward Nevill, de facto 7th Baron Bergavenny (c. 1526 – 10 February 1588) was a de facto English peer. [citation needed]The son of Sir Edward Nevill, he was considered to have succeeded to the Barony upon the death of Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, his first cousin, although by modern doctrine he did not hold that title, as it should have descended to the heir general, the 6th Baron's ...