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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. 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 ...
The Leghs of Adlington were established by Robert de Leigh who inherited the lordship of the manor of Adlington from his mother Elena de Corona (née de Baguley). His father, John de Leigh, who was lord of the manor of Over Knutsford and seated at Norbury Booths, descended in the male line from the Venable family.
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 (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).
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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]