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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).
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.
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.
Burke's Peerage 107th edition (2003) Cokayne Complete Peerage reissued Gloucester (2000) Debrett Complete Peerage 9th Edition (1814) Memoirs of Letitia Pilkington reissued by the University of Georgia 1999; Gibney, John "Sir John Meade" Dictionary of Irish Biography Cambridge University Press
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 ...
Richard Wingfield was born on 29 October 1762, the son of Richard Wingfield, 3rd Viscount Powerscourt, and Lady Amelia Stratford.He succeeded his father as the 4th Viscount Powerscourt on 8 August 1788, inheriting extensive lands in County Wicklow and the title of Baron Wingfield of Wingfield, County Wexford.
Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926; Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland London Henry Colburn 1850; Burke's Peerage 107th edition Delaware 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.