APPENDIX III
Formal Modes of Addressing Communications To Persons of Rank and Title
Ambassador. — The title ‘Excellency’ belongs specially to ambassadors, as well as to governors of colonies, and the Lord lieutenant of Ireland. Address letters ‘His Excellency (with name or distinctive title following), His Britannic Majesty’s ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of — ’ Begin: ‘Sir,’ ‘My Lord’, according as the ambassador possesses title or not. When personal reference is made, say ‘Your Excellency’. An envoy extraordinary or charge d'affaires, though inferior to an ambassador strictly so called, also usually receives the title ‘Excellency’; and the wives of ambassadors are generally addressed similarly during their husband’s tenure of office and while residing abroad.
Archbishop. — Address: ‘His Grace the Lord Archbishop of — ’. Begin: ‘My Lord Archbishop’. Refer to as ‘Your Grace’. The most formal method of addressing the Archbishop of Canterbury is as follows: ‘The Most Reverend Father in God, James (or whatever the Christian name is), by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan’. The Archbishop of York is addressed as ‘The Most Reverend Father in God, — by Divine Permission Lord Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan’. All Metropolitans are styled ‘Most Reverend: — ’ ... ‘The Most Reverend the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, Metropolitan of India’. An Archbishop may be addressed as ‘The Right Honourable and Most Reverend the Archbishop of — ’ if he has a claim to be called ‘Right Hon’. apart from his ecclesiastical position. The wife of an Archbishop has no special title in right of her husband’s official rank but Addressed as ‘Mrs.’ simply.
Archdeacon. — An Archdeacon is styled ‘Venerable’. ‘The Venerable the Archdeacon of — ’. Begin: ‘Venerable Sir‘, or ‘Reverend Sir’, or ‘Mr. Archdeacon’ (especially in speaking).
Baron. — Address: ‘The Right Hon. Lord — ’; less formally ‘The Lord — ’. Begin: ‘My Lord’. Refer to as ‘Your Lordship’. Baron’s Daughter. — Baron’s daughters are all entitled to be
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