L. G. Pine, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

L. G. Pine

British genealogist

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1907

Date of Death: 15-May-1987

Profession: writer, lawyer, lecturer, genealogist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About L. G. Pine

  • Leslie Gilbert Pine (22 December 1907 – 15 May 1987) was a British author, lecturer, and researcher in the areas of genealogy, nobility, history, heraldry and animal welfare.[1] He was born in 1907 in Bristol, England and died in Bury St.
  • Edmunds, Suffolk in 1987.
  • He was the son of Lilian Grace Beswetherick and Henry Moorshead Pine (a tea merchant).[2]From 1935 to 1940 he served as an assistant editor at Burke's Peerage Ltd.
  • During World War II he was an officer in the Royal Air Force intelligence branch, serving in North Africa, Italy, Greece, and India; he retired with the rank of Squadron Leader.
  • After the war and until 1960, he was Burke's executive director.
  • Pine edited Burke's Peerage, 1949-1959; Burke's Landed Gentry (of Great Britain), 1952; Burke's Landed Gentry (of Ireland), 1958; and, Burke's Distinguished Families of America, 1939, 1947.
  • He also edited The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who, 1953-1960; Author's and Writer's Who's Who, 1948, 1960; Who's Who in Music, 1949; and, Who's Who in the Free Churches, 1951.[3]A graduate of London University, he became a Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple, in 1953.
  • Pine was a member of the International Institute of Genealogy and Heraldry, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Journalists, a Freeman of the City of London, and a Liveryman of the Glaziers' Company.
  • In 1959 he was the unsuccessful Conservative candidate for Bristol Central. He was managing editor of a British hunting magazine, Shooting Times, from 1960 to 1964.[4] He later authored an important book highly critical of sport hunting, After Their Blood, in which he wrote: "It is our duty as men and women of God’s redeemed creation to try not to increase the suffering of the world, but to lessen it.
  • To get rid of bloodsports will be a great step toward this end." In 1948 Leslie Pine married Grace V.
  • Griffin (20 August 1914- ).
  • Their only child, Richard Pine, was born in London on 21 August 1949.

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