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unusual facts about Courtesy title


Honorary title

Courtesy title, a form of address in systems of nobility used by children, former wives and other close relatives of a peer


Claire Windsor, Countess of Ulster

Lord Ulster married her on 22 June 2002 at the Queen's Chapel, St James's Palace, following which her title became Countess of Ulster or Lady Ulster (as appropriate).

Earl of Mayo

Known for most of his life under his courtesy title of Lord Naas, he was three times Chief Secretary for Ireland and served as Governor-General of India from 1869 to 1872, when he was assassinated on the Andaman Islands.

Gavin Dalzell, 2nd Earl of Carnwath

Gavin Dalzell, 2nd Earl of Carnwath (1627−1674), styled by the courtesy title Lord Dalzell and Liberton from 1639, was a Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter during the English Civil War.

House of Castries

The ducal title, fallen into disuse due to the death of the third duke without issue, was re-created as a courtesy title in 1907 by René Edmond Marie Gabriel de La Croix de Castries (1842–1913), comte de Castries, an old diplomat belonging to a cadet branch of the family.

Mountcharles

The courtesy title of the heir apparent of The Marquess Conyngham is Earl of Mount Charles, being named after the village.

Stanley Tiffany

defeating the sitting Conservative MP John Hely-Hutchinson, known by his courtesy title as Viscount Suirdale.

Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire

Also on 8 December 1529, the Earl of Wiltshire's only surviving son, George, was granted the courtesy title of Viscount Rochford.

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath

Known by the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth from birth, he was born at The Stable Yard, St James's, London, the eldest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, by the Honourable Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci.


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Alice Lisle

Alice Lisle's husband, Sir John Lisle (d. 1664), had been one of the judges at the trial of Charles I, and was subsequently a member of Cromwell's House of Lords, hence his wife's courtesy title.

Altamont, British Columbia

Named by John Fitzgerald Mahon ( - 1942) of Vancouver and London, who subdivided land here in 1913, after his brother-in-laws' courtesy title, Earl of Altamont, the eldest son of the Marquess of Sligo, and brother of his wife, Lady Alice Mahon.

Countess of Stockton

The Countess of Stockton is a courtesy title granted to the wives of the Earl of Stockton.

Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom

Thus the husband of Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone is called Peter Bottomley and has no courtesy title.

Daphne Trimble

After graduating in Law from Queen's University Belfast, she married her former lecturer David Trimble in August 1978, acquiring the courtesy title of Lady on his elevation in June 2006 to the House of Lords.

Lord Lisle

Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, played a major role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms including time as Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1646 to 1647 under the courtesy title Lord Lisle

LuAnn de Lesseps

Her courtesy title comes from her previous marriage to French nobleman Count Alexandre de Lesseps, a descendant of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the architect of the Suez Canal.

Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin

Nugent was the eldest son and heir of Thomas Nugent, 6th Earl of Westmeath and adopted the courtesy title of Lord Delvin in 1754 when his father acceded to the earldom.

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus

The title Earl of Angus is now held by the Dukes of Hamilton, and is used as a courtesy title for the eldest son of the heir apparent to the current dukedom.