Titled characters (WAS Voldemort's "lordship")

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86161

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pengolodh_sc" 
<pengolodh_sc at y...> wrote:


Geoff:
> > Speaking as a UK resident, my comment would be that the title
> > Baron is fairly rare - Baronet and also Baroness is not. Earl,
> > Lord and Duke are reasonably common and the wife of an Earl,
> > for example, might be styled Countess.


Christian Stubs:
> 1.  A Baroness is a wife of a Baron, so I don't expect Baronesses 
to 
> be significantly more common or rare than Barons.
> 


Geoff:
You may well be right that Barons are often styled "Lord" but you 
have overlooked that a Baroness can also be "A woman holding the rank 
of baron". Quite what the parameters for this to occur are, I cannot 
say.

The point is that the title Baroness occurs in the news a good deal 
more than Baron. There are a few Baronesses kicking around in the 
present Government by way of example. Perhaps Barons prefer to be 
Lords to remove the stigma of being a "robber Baron". Perhaps the 
Bloody Baron doesn't care.. :-)

Geoff