XPost: alt.history.british, alt.politics.british, soc.history.medieval   
   From: aabbcc@wanadoo.fr   
      
   "William Black"  a écrit dans le message de   
   news: fbm5ph$fe8$2@registered.motzarella.org...   
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   > "D. Spencer Hines"  wrote in message   
   > news:K9nDi.253$YE3.106@eagle.america.net...   
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   >> How does one officially address Marquises/Marquesses in speech?   
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   > "How are you today Lord Blank?"   
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   > You may wish to snivel.   
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   > I am a freeborn Englishman and call no man my master save God and my king.   
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   > (I wish I could remember who said that first)   
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   >> How does one officially address baronets and knights in speech?   
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   > You'd be 'Sir David",  your wife would be 'Lady Hines".   
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   > It is uncommon for baronets to use their title these days.   
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   >> But Winston was reportedly a member of the Privy Council from, what,   
   >> 1907 --   
   >> in the reign of Edward VII?   
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   >> So, from that date he was a Right Hon.?   
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   > Fron the date he was admitted to the Privy Ciouncil.   
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   >> When an MP, A, refers to another MP, B, as "The Right Hon." that means   
   >> that   
   >> B is a member of the PC?   
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   > Yes.   
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   >> What is an "ordinary" MP -- who is NOT a member of the PC -- called?   
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   > There are three forms of address in the HoC.   
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   > Rt Hon,  the member is a member of the privy council   
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   > Hon,  the member is a lawyer,  or at least that used to be the case,   
   > these   
   > days the usage tends not to be enforced.   
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   > The member for xxx,  they are neither.   
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   > "My friend", "my honourable friend" and  "my right honourable friend",   
   > means that they're in the same party.   
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   > "The gentleman",  "the honourable gentleman" and "the right honourable   
   > gentleman",  means he belongs to another party.   
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   > --   
   > William Black   
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   "I am a freeborn Englishman and call no man my master save God and my king"   
   I think that was William Penn   
      
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