XPost: alt.history.british, alt.politics.british, soc.history.medieval
From: william.black@hotmail.co.uk
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
news:K9nDi.253$YE3.106@eagle.america.net...
> How does one officially address Marquises/Marquesses in speech?
"How are you today Lord Blank?"
You may wish to snivel.
I am a freeborn Englishman and call no man my master save God and my king.
(I wish I could remember who said that first)
> How does one officially address baronets and knights in speech?
You'd be 'Sir David", your wife would be 'Lady Hines".
It is uncommon for baronets to use their title these days.
> 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.?
Fron the date he was admitted to the Privy Ciouncil.
> When an MP, A, refers to another MP, B, as "The Right Hon." that means
> that
> B is a member of the PC?
Yes.
> What is an "ordinary" MP -- who is NOT a member of the PC -- called?
There are three forms of address in the HoC.
Rt Hon, the member is a member of the privy council
Hon, the member is a lawyer, or at least that used to be the case, these
days the usage tends not to be enforced.
The member for xxx, they are neither.
"My friend", "my honourable friend" and "my right honourable friend",
means that they're in the same party.
"The gentleman", "the honourable gentleman" and "the right honourable
gentleman", means he belongs to another party.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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