Burke, Sir John Bernard, genealogist, born in London, of Irish descent, author of the “Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom”; produced, besides editing successive editions of it, a number of works on aristocratic genealogies (1815‒1892).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Burke, Edmund * Burke, Robert O'Hara