Com. and Con. same as the preceding.
- Clergymen with Titles.—When a Bishop or other Clergyman possesses the title of Right Honourable or Honourable, it is prefixed to his Clerical title, but Baronets and Knights have their clerical title placed first, as in the following examples:
Sup.—To the Right Honourable and Rigt Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.
Sup.—To the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Norwich.
Sup.—To the Right Honourable and Reverend Lord Wriothesley Russell, M.A.
Sup.—To the Honourable and Reverend Baptist Wriothesley Noel, M.A.
Sup.—To the Reverend Sir Henry R. Dukinfield, Bart, M.A.
No clerical dignity confers a title or rank on the wife of the dignitary, who is simply addressed Mistress, unless possessing a title in her own right, or through her husband, independently of his clerical rank.
242. Judges &c.
- Lord Chancellor. —Sup.—To the Right Honourable Roundell Palmer, Lord Selborne, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
- Master of the Rolls.—Sup.—To the Right Honourable the Master of the Rolls.
- Chief Justice.—Sup.—To the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice; or, the Right Honourable Lord Coleridge, Lord Chief Justice of England.
The Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas is addressed in the same form, and are all styled My Lord.
- Lords Justices of Appeal.—The Lords Justices of Appeal are Knights, and should be addressed thus: