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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 ...
Burke, of Irish descent, was born at London and was educated in London and France. His father, John Burke (1787–1848), was also a notable genealogist who first produced, in 1826, a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
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 ...
Burke's: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain 1863; Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley: A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage of England, Ireland and Scotland, 1831; G. E. Cokayne The Complete Baronetage (1905 edition) Debrett's: Extant Baronetage of England; Debrett's: Debrett's Peerage ...
Dysart is the son of Lt Col John Peter Grant, MBE 16th of Rothiemurchus, and his wife Lady Katherine, née Greaves.. Dysart was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Inverness-shire in 1986, [2] and succeeded his father as 'of Rothiemurchus', in the Cairngorms, in 1987.
He then moved to an assistantship at Burke's Peerage, the historic chronicler of the nobility and landed gentry of the British Isles. He was chief editor of Burke's Peerage from 1971 to 1983. [2] Massingberd then worked as a freelance columnist for The Spectator and The Field until taking up a position with The Daily Telegraph in 1986. [2]