Peter Burke QC (7 May 1811–26 March 1881) was an English barrister and serjeant-at-law, known also as a writer.
Having been called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1839, he joined the northern circuit and the Manchester and Lancashire sessions.
[1] Burke later practised at the parliamentary bar, and appeared before the House of Lords in several major peerage cases.
He was made a Queen's Counsel of the county palatine of Lancaster in 1858, and a serjeant-at-law in 1859.
He was elected director or chief honorary officer of the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy for 1866-7.