Burke, SIR JOHN BERNARD

Burke, SIR JOHN BERNARD, herald and genealogist, the son of John Burke (1787-1848), representative of a Tipperary family, who settled in London as a literary man, and in 1826 published the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The son, born in London in 1815, and educated at Caen in Normandy, was trained as a lawyer, and called to the bar in 1839. In 1853 he was appointed Ulster King-of-arms, was knighted in 1854, became LL.D. of Dublin in 1867, C.B. in 1868, and in 1874 governor of the National Gallery of Ireland. He died 13th December 1892. Besides editing the successive issues of the Peerage founded by his father (55th ed. 1893), he published other works on Landed Gentry (1846), Extinct Peerages (1846), Anecdotes of the Aristocracy (1849), Family Romance (1853), The Vicissitudes of Great Families (1859), The Rise of Great Families (1873), and Reminiscences (1882).