Men-at-the-Bar/Burke, Sir John Bernard

3363986Men-at-the-Bar — Burke, Sir John BernardJoseph Foster


Burke, Sir John Bernard, Knt. (1854), C.B. (1868), LL.D. (hon.), Trin. Coll., Dublin, 1862, Ulster king of arms since 1853, keeper of state papers of Ireland since 1867, governor of the National Gallery of Ireland since 1874, member of Royal Irish Academy, governor of National Gallery Dublin since 1874, author of Burke's Peerage, Landed Gentry, and many other genealogical works, knighted 22 Feb., 1854, a student of the Middle Temple 30 Dec., 1835, called to the bar 25 Jan., 1839 (2nd son of John Burke, Esq., of Brompton, Middlesex); born , 1815; married 8 Jan., 1856, Barbara Frances, 2nd dau. of late James MacEvoy, Esq., of Tobertynan, co. Meath (and granddau. of Sir Joshua Colles Meredyth, Bart.), and has issue.

Tullamaine, co. Dublin; Record Tower, Castle, Dublin.