Burke’s Landed Gentry - The Kingdom of Scotland
19th Edition, Volume I
ISBN 9781579583736 / 1579583733
DOI 10.5118/blgs.2001

Burke’s Landed Gentry has long been an invaluable genealogical guide to notable families and their histories throughout the British Isles. The 19th Edition of the Landed Gentry saw volumes organised on a regional basis for the first time. Burke’s Landed Gentry - The Kingdom of Scotland, the first volume, is now available as a digital edition.

This genealogical reference work details the descendants of 650 notable Scottish families whether living in Scotland or settled abroad. It includes some 15,000 people living at the time of publication and biographies of more than 850 of Scotland's leading individuals. Wherever possible the editors have included illustrations of the coats of arms used by the heads of families and some of their members, as well as those in the biographical Section. Burke’s Landed Gentry The Kingdom of Scotland, is probably the largest collection of Scottish genealogies ever published in a single volume.

Previous editions of Burke’s Peerage & Baronetage, representing the titled nobility, were published separately from the Burke’s Landed Gentry series, representing the untitled nobility. Other reference books such as Who’s Who and Debrett’s People of Today listed the various ‘movers and shakers’ of their day. The 19th edition of Burke’s Landed Gentry – including titled and untitled members of the modern establishment moves away from such separation and delivers an amalgamation of all of these elements. This echoes the full title of the earliest editions of the Landed Gentry, namely Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, or Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but un-invested with heritable honours, but to which, of course, the peerage and baronetage elements have now been added.

This book is available by annual subscription to individuals, organisations and libraries on a standalone basis or as part of the Burke's Peerage Shelf collection of Burke's reference works. Users of subscribing UK Public Libraries can access it both within the library and remotely on their home computers. The book is also accessible on the iPhone and iPod touch using the built-in browser or the Exactly application.