Richard G. F. Uniacke
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Richard Gordon FitzGerald Uniacke, FRSAI (19 August 1867 – 11 November 1934)[1] was a British genealogist and librarian. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Robert FitzGerald Uniacke, late vicar of Tandridge, Surrey, a descendant of an old Irish family, the Uniackes of Uniacke and Castleton, County Cork.[2] He was a great grandson of Richard John Uniacke (1753–1830), Attorney-General of Nova Scotia.[3]
Born in 1867, he was educated at Repton and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in history, and rowed in his college eight. A Latin and historical scholar and genealogist, Uniacke was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. For many years he served as assistant librarian at the College of Arms. A genealogist and archivist, in 1894 Richard G. F. Uniacke published "Some Old County Cork Families: The Uniackes of Youghal" in the Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society.[3]
