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   From: panther@excelsior.com   
      
   "Turenne"  wrote in message   
   news:1188941316.522169.264670@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...   
      
   > DSH wrote:   
   >   
   >>Winston Churchill, as a grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was an   
   >>Honourable, or not?   
   >   
   >>He was a Right Honorable as an MP, right?   
   >   
   > Nearly right: Churchill was the son of Lord Randolph Churchill who in   
   > turn was a younger son of The Duke of Marlborough.   
      
   Yes, I understand.   
      
   > Sons of younger sons of dukes aren't 'Hons'.   
      
   Got It.  But his father, Lord Randolph Churchill WAS an Hon., from birth,   
   but not THE Hon.?   
      
   > A Right Hon. is a member of the Privy Council and is also the correct   
   > way to address barons, viscounts and earls. So yes, an MP may be a   
   > Right Hon. but only if he is a member of the Privy Council.   
   >   
   > Richard   
      
   O.K.   
      
   How does one officially address Marquises/Marquesses in speech?   
      
   How does one officially address baronets and knights in speech?   
      
   But Winston was reportedly a member of the Privy Council from, what, 1907 --   
   in the reign of Edward VII?   
      
   So, from that date he was a Right Hon.?   
      
   When an MP, A, refers to another MP, B, as "The Right Hon." that means that   
   B is a member of the PC?   
      
   What is an "ordinary" MP -- who is NOT a member of the PC -- called?   
      
   DSH   
      
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