Peter Burke

Born in London on May 7, 1811, he was the eldest son of John Burke of Elm Hall, County Tipperary, and the brother of Sir John Bernard Burke. He was educated at Caen in Normandy, called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1839, joined the northern circuit and the Manchester and Lancashire sessions, became Queen's Counsel in 1854, and was made a serjeant-at-law in 1871.

Alongside his legal career, he wrote widely for general readers. Sources available here describe him as the author of books on legal history, notable trials, and courtroom anecdote, and they also connect him with works on Edmund Burke.

He died on March 26, 1881. No clearly suitable portrait image of this specific Peter Burke was confirmed from the page images I could verify, so no profile image is included.