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2 unusual facts about Henry Farnham 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.

Earl of Tyrone

Don Jorge O'Neill of Clanaboy and Lisbon submitted his pedigree to the Ulster office of Heralds; in 1896, he received a letter from Sir Henry Farnham Burke, Somerset Herald, acknowledging that he had proved his descent from the royal descent from the Kings of Ireland, and his collateral descent from Hugh O'Neill.



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