Notable British Families

Since the 1820s the Burke family has produced a series of world-renowned books dealing with British nobility, aristocracy, and landed gentry. Beginning with "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage" (1826), followed by the four-volume set of "Burke's Commoners" (later called "Burke's Landed Gentry"), and extending right up to the present time with the most recent edition of "Burke's Peerage" (no longer a family effort, however), Burke's publications have dominated the field of British an...