Britain, Knights of the Realm & Commonwealth Select Bibliography

Asbridge, Thomas

The Greatest Knight

2015

Ashmole, Elias

The Institution, Laws and Ceremonies of Order of the Garter

1672

Banks, T E

Baronia Anglica Concentrata (2 vols.)

1843

Bassett, Margery

Knights of the Shire for Bedfordshire during the Middle Ages

Bedfordshire Historical Records Society, 1959

Beavan, Alfred B

The Aldermen of the City of London (2 vols.)

The Corporation of the City of London, 1908

Beltz, G F

Memorials of the Garter

1841

Black A & C

Who was Who /Who's Who

Various editions, 1897 onwards and online

Boase, Frederic

Modern English Biography (6 vols.)

Frank Cass & Co., 1965

Brenan, G A

A History of the House of Percy (2 vols.)

1902

Burke, Sir Bernard

The Book of Orders of Knighthood

1858

Burke, various

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage

Editions from 1826 onwards

Burke, J & J

The Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland

1841

Burke

Extinct, Dormant and Abeyant Peerages

1840

Burke

Handbook to the Order of the British Empire

1921

Clark, Hugh

A Concise History of Knighthood (2 vols.)

1784

Clay, J.W.

Extinct & Dormant Peerages of the Northern Counties of England

1913

Cockayne, G.E.

The Complete Peerage (20 vols.in 6) 1887-1938

Sutton, 1982

Cockayne, G.E.

The Complete Peerage, Vol. XIV (Addenda & Corrigenda)

Sutton, 1998

Debrett

Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage

1713 onwards

De la Bere, Sir Peter

The Queens Orders of Chivalry

Spring Books, 1964

Doyle, J.E.

The Official Baronage of England

3 vols, 1886

Fellowes, Edmund H.

The Knights of the Garter 1348-1969

1969

Fellowes, Edmund H.

The Military Knights of Windsor 1352-1944

1944

Foss, Edward

A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England 1066-1870

John Murray, 1870

Foster, J.

Some Feudal Coats of Arms

James Parker, 1902

Galloway, Peter

The Most Illustrious Order of St.Patrick

Phillimore, 1983

Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor

Knightage (year books)

Various 1912 onwards

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Inquisitions Post Mortem (29 vols.)

Various dates and publishers

Kelly

Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official

Kelly, 1874 onwards

Metcalfe, Walter C.

A Book of Knights (1426-1660)

Mitchell & Hughes, 1885

Moor, C.

The Knights of Edward I (5 vols.)

Harleian Soc., 1928-32

Neville D.G.

Early Orders of Knighthood and Chivalry

1978

Nicholas, Sir H.

The Historic Peerage of England

1857

Nichols, J.G.

The Herald and Genealogist (8 vols.)

1868-74

Ormrod, W.M.

The Lord Lieutenants and High Sheriffs of Yorkshire 1066-2000

University of York

Oxford University Press

The Dictionary of National Biography (Missing Persons)

OUP, 1993

Parry, C.J.

The Parliamentary Representation of Faversham

Faversham Society, 2004

Perkins, Jocelyn

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath

Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1913

Poole S.L.

The Mohamedan Dynasties

1894

Risk J.C.

The History of the Order of the Bath and its Insignia

Spink & Co., 1972

Roskell, J.L., et al.

The History of Parliament (The House of Commons) 1386-1421 (4 vols.)

Sutton, 1992

Shaw, W. A.

The Knights of England (2 vols.)

Sharrat & Hughes, 1905

Stenton & Lees

Who's Who of British Members of Parliament 1832-1979 (4 vols.)

Harvester Press, 1979

Townsend, Francis

A Calendar of Knights 1760-1828

Interleaved author's manuscript copy, 1828

Various editors

History of Parliament (in 12 sections by date from 1386 to 1832 of which two sections yet to be published, 1422-1504 and 1640-1660)

Various dates from 1964-2010

Walford Edward

The County Families of the United Kingdom

Spottiswoode & Ballantyne, various editions, 1865 onwards