Posted by Brent
on 28/10/2009, 13:59:58, in reply to "Courtesy title"
69.43.88.2
I know that he can't 'succeed' to the title, as it is a courtesy title. I was just quoting the Daily Telegraph.
What comes to mind is the current heir to the Dukedom of Devonshire, who goes by the courtesy title of Earl of Burlington rather than Marquess of Hartington, which he could, but he has been the Earl of Burlington since his birth, so why not go by what he's been known as his entire life.
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: James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston and heir to
: the
: Dukedom of Grafton, died on October 1. He
: was 61. His father is Hugh, 11th Duke of
: Grafton and his mother, Fortune, is The
: Queen's Mistress of the Robes. His son,
: Henry, Viscount Ipswich, succeeds to the
: title Earl of Euston.
:
: Lord Ipswich can't succeed to the title Earl
: of Euston, since that title is held by his
: grandfather the Duke of Grafton.
:
: There are no absolute rules when it comes to
: the courtesy titles held by the heirs
: apparent to a peerage. It is entirely a
: matter of usage. If Lord Ipswich decides to
: continue to call himself "Lord
: Ipswich" then that is his courtesy
: title. He COULD call himself "Earl of
: Euston" and then that would be his
: courtesy title.
:
: There are many examples of this in history:
: e.g. from 1850 to 1869 the heir apparent of
: the "Earl De la Warr" was styled
: "Lord West" and not "Viscount
: Cantelupe".
:
: There are many peculiarities with courtesy
: titles. There are even cases of the heir
: apparent using a title not held by the peer,
: e.g. "Viscount Suirdale" is the
: heir of the "Earl of Donoughmore"
: who doesn't even hold a Suirdale title.
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: Noel S. McFerran
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