28-599: For the British genealogical publisher, see Burke's Peerage . For other uses, see Burks (disambiguation) and Burke (disambiguation) . Burkes is a surname . Notable people with the names include: Ida Burkes or Ida Dorsey (c. 1866–1988), American madam Wayne Burkes (1929–2020), American politician See also [ edit ] Burks , surname Berkes , surname Birks (surname) Burke , surname and given name [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
56-555: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom , was updated sporadically until 1847, when the company began publishing new editions every year as Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage (often shortened and known as Burke's Peerage ). Other books followed, including Burke's Landed Gentry , Burke's Colonial Gentry , and Burke's General Armory . In addition to its peerage publications,
84-517: A London publisher. Much of the material in this book was re-used in a shorter, cheaper and more popular exposition of contemporary English heraldic practice, A Complete Guide to Heraldry , which proved very successful and influential. This too has been reprinted several times. Even the still shorter Heraldry Explained balanced a clear and didactic text with plentiful illustration. Fox-Davies's emphasis on practical and officially authorised heraldry caused him to showcase mostly recent grants of arms. This
112-479: Is a British genealogical publisher , considered an authority on the order of precedence of noble families and information on the lesser nobility of the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, when the Anglo-Irish genealogist John Burke began releasing books devoted to the ancestry and heraldry of the peerage , baronetage , knightage and landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland . His first publication,
140-606: The Burke's publishing company produced books on Royal families of Europe and Latin America , ruling families of Africa and the Middle East, distinguished families of the United States and historical families of Ireland . The firm was established in 1826 by John Burke (1786–1848), progenitor of a dynasty of genealogists and heralds . His son Sir John Bernard Burke (1814–1892)
168-583: The College of Arms . In support of this campaign, he produced a directory which attempted to list all living bearers of arms in England and Wales who could prove such authority, under the title Armorial Families . This served as an incentive to families who had not got such authority to regularise their position at the College of Arms and the size of the work increased considerably until its final edition in 1929, which remains
196-528: The surname Burkes . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burkes&oldid=1113266515 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Burke%27s Peerage Burke's Peerage Limited
224-543: The Surrey and South London Sessions. He also prepared printed cases for peerage cases in the House of Lords . He married in 1901 Mary Ellen Blanche Crookes (1870–1935), daughter and coheiress of Septimus Wilkinson Crookes and Anne Blanche Harriet Proctor. They had a son, Harley Edmond Fitzroy Fox-Davies (1907–1941), and a daughter, Moyra de Somery Regan. His wife worked as an heraldic artist, often for her husband's publications, under
252-440: The accuracy of Burke's and said that it contained pedigrees that were purely mythical – if indeed mythical is not too respectable a name for what must be in many cases the work of deliberate invention [... and] all but invariably false. As a rule, it is not only false, but impossible [...] not merely fictions, but exactly that kind of fiction which is, in its beginning, deliberate and interested falsehood. Oscar Wilde in
280-635: The article on "Heraldry" in the Catholic Encyclopedia . Politically Conservative , Fox-Davies "quite hopelessly" stood for election as a member of parliament for Merthyr Tydfil in 1910, 1923 and 1924. He was, however, elected as a member of Holborn Borough Council in London. Fox-Davies lived at 65 Warwick Gardens in Kensington , London, and had chambers at 23, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. He died, aged 57, of portal hypertension and cirrhosis of
308-483: The chief editorship, from 1949 to 1959, of L. G. Pine and Hugh Massingberd (1971–1983). Pine was particularly sceptical regarding many families' claims to antiquity, saying: "If everybody who claims to have come over with the Conqueror were right, William must have landed with 200,000 men-at-arms instead of about 12,000." Arthur Charles Fox-Davies Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (28 February 1871 – 19 May 1928)
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#1732845236409336-473: The continuing popularity of his books with the general public and with expert heraldists alike. One of his admirers in the next generation was John Brooke-Little , Norroy and Ulster King of Arms and founder of the Heraldry Society, who edited a new edition of The Complete Guide to Heraldry and in many ways propagated similar, albeit somewhat less aggressively expressed, ideas. Fox-Davies never served as
364-711: The daughter and co-heiress of alderman John Fox, JP . Fox-Davies was brought up from the early 1880s at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, where his father worked for the Coalbrookdale Iron Company and had a house called "Paradise" which became his home in much of his adult life; his grandfather, Charles Davies of Cardigan in Wales, had been an ironmonger. He added his mother's maiden name to his own by deed poll on his nineteenth birthday in 1890, thereby changing his surname from Davies to Fox-Davies. In 1894, his father took
392-671: The dexter claw a hammer proper"; those granted to John Fox were "per pale argent and gules, three foxes sejant counterchanged", with, for crest, a demi stag winged gules collared argent . Fox-Davies bore the Davies arms with a crescent for cadency , and intended to quarter them with the Fox arms after his mother's death; but as she outlived him, dying in 1937, this was not possible. He also considered obtaining grants to his wife's families of Crookes and Proctor, which would have entitled his children to additional quarterings, but at this point he no longer had
420-544: The liver, having lain ill in his home for several weeks. He was buried at the parish church of Holy Trinity in Coalbrookdale . Fox-Davies's writing on heraldry is characterised by a passionate attachment to heraldry as art and history and also as law. He was something of a polemicist, and issued one of his most controversial works, The Right to Bear Arms , under the pseudonym X . However, he always supported his arguments with specific historical and manuscript evidence. He
448-449: The money for further grants of arms. He did obtain, in 1921, the grant of a badge , which consisted of a crown vallary gules . His motto was Da Fydd , Welsh for "good faith" and a pun on the name Davies. In addition to his writings on heraldry, he published a number of works of fiction, including detective stories such as The Dangerville Inheritance (1907), The Mauleverer Murders (1907) and The Duplicate Death (1910). He authored
476-465: The most comprehensive published record (the records of the College of Arms being largely unpublished) of post-Victorian heraldry in Britain. Many of the arms were illustrated with specially commissioned heraldic drawings, and Fox-Davies drew on this large resource when illustrating his more systematic treatises on heraldry. The most lavish of these was The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopædia of Armory , which
504-473: The play A Woman of No Importance wrote: "You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done!" In 1901, the historian J. Horace Round wrote of Burke's "old fables" and "grotesquely impossible tales". More recent editions have been more scrupulously checked and rewritten for accuracy, notably under
532-470: The pseudonym "C. Helard". Neither the Fox nor the Davies families were armigerous, so in 1905, when Fox-Davies was 34 and already well-advanced in his career as a writer on heraldic and genealogical subjects, he organised posthumous grants of arms to both his grandfathers. The arms granted to Charles Davies were sable, a demi sun in splendour issuant in base or, a chief dancetée of the last , with, for crest, "a demi dragon rampant gules collared or, holding in
560-574: The same course for himself and the rest of the family. Fox-Davies attended Ackworth School in Yorkshire, but was expelled in 1884 at the age of fourteen, after hitting one of the schoolmasters. He received no further formal education, but was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1901 and called to the bar in 1906. As a barrister, he practised on the South Eastern Circuit, at the Old Bailey , and at
588-472: Was Ulster King of Arms (1853–1892) and his grandson, Sir Henry Farnham Burke (1859–1930), was Garter Principal King of Arms (1919–1930). After his death, ownership passed through a variety of people. Apart from the Burke family, editors have included Arthur Charles Fox-Davies , Alfred Trego Butler , Leslie Gilbert Pine , Peter Townend , and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd . From 1974 to 1983, Jeremy Norman
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#1732845236409616-478: Was a British expert on heraldry . His Complete Guide to Heraldry , published in 1909, has become a standard work on heraldry in England. A barrister by profession, Fox-Davies worked on several notable cases involving the peerage, and also worked as a journalist and novelist. Arthur Charles Davies (known as Charlie) was born in Bristol , the second son of Thomas Edmond Davies (1839–1908) and his wife Maria Jane Fox,
644-502: Was acquired by Frederik Jan Gustav Floris, Baron van Pallandt, while Burke's Landed Gentry and other titles were sold to other buyers. Last published in 2003 as Burke's Peerage & Baronetage , the Burke's titles (including Burke's Landed Gentry ) have since been reunified and the present ownership plans to next publish an updated book-form bicentenary edition in 2026. In 1877, the Oxford professor Edward Augustus Freeman criticised
672-492: Was chairman of the company, taking the role while Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd was editor . His fellow directors included Patrick, Lord Lichfield , and John Brooke-Little , Norroy & Ulster King of Arms . Under Norman's chairmanship, new volumes were published on royal families, Irish genealogy, and country houses of the British Isles . In 1984, the Burke's Peerage titles were separated and sold: Burke's Peerage itself
700-512: Was in contrast to the medieval emphasis of other scholars, of whom his most prominent critics were Oswald Barron , author of the celebrated article on heraldry in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica , and Horace Round . Round, in an essay called "Heraldry and the Gent" (eventually published in his collection Peerage and Pedigree ), ridiculed another thesis with which Fox-Davies
728-538: Was originally conceived as an English translation of a German publication ( Ströhl 's Heraldischer Atlas ) but which was transformed, in Fox-Davies's hands, into a largely original work specifically directed to the history, theory and practice of English heraldry, with illustrations in black and white and in colour throughout. This large 500-page book was first published in 1904 and was re-issued in black and white only in 1976 by an American publisher and in 1986 in colour by
756-515: Was particularly associated, namely, that an English grant of arms was equivalent to a continental patent of nobility , and that, not only were all English armigers to that extent noblemen as well as gentlemen (if male), but that no one without an official right to bear a coat of arms could claim to be a gentleman at all. Fox-Davies's influence on English heraldry continued long after his death in 1928, not least because of his lawyerly insistence on backing his opinions with solid evidence, and because of
784-513: Was the editor of the Genealogical Magazine from 1895 to 1906. He conducted a lifelong campaign against the bearing of coats of arms without lawful authority in accordance with the Law of Arms , whether that authority was a right recognised at the visitations conducted by heralds in the 16th and 17th centuries or, more commonly, a right deriving from a specific grant entered in the records of
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