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Arms of office of Sir Bernard Burke A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, Sixth Edition 1839 (better known simply as Burke's Peerage) The firm was established in 1826 by John Burke (1786–1848), progenitor of a dynasty of genealogists and heralds.
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).
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, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons. Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. ISBN 0 ...
Peerage lawyers have claimed that Fiennes's summons to Parliament created a new barony, for though his wife was a peeress in her own right, his summons was not a courtesy one. J. Horace Round held that the award of 1473 assigning the heir general and her husband precedence of the old barony, over that of the heir male, was a recognition of his ...
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There is some confusion about his parentage. It is often said that he was the third son of Sir Anthony St Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and his wife Agnes Warham.However, both Burke's Peerage, [1] and Francis Elrington Ball in his definitive study of the pre-Independence Irish judiciary, [2] state that he was the nephew, not the son, of the elder Sir Anthony, and that his parents were Sir ...
John Clinton married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of Sir John Morgan of Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales, whom he married before 1490.. His second wife was Anne West, [3] daughter of Thomas West, 8th Baron de la Warr [4] (d. 1525), whom he married before 1501.