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3 unusual facts about Bernard Burke


Bernard Burke

Continuing the strong family tradition of genealogy and heraldry, another of Burke's sons, Sir Henry Farnham Burke, would eventually rise to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms.

O'Grady family

Burke, Bernard and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Irish Family Records.

Robert Nicholl Carne

This article incorporates public domain text from John Bernard Burke's A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain (1853).


Fitton Gerard, 3rd Earl of Macclesfield

On 15 November 1712, the two men fought a famous duel in Hyde Park, Westminster, described in Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond and in Bernard Burke's Anecdotes of the Aristocracy.


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