WOMEN AND TITLES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 18

WOMEN AND TITLES

MODERN DEVELOPMENTS

It is a matter of interest and some What of surprise to note the, number of women nowadays who have "let* ters" following their names, meaning social titles of one sort and another. In the list of officials of the National Council of Great- Britain, the.' presi* dent, the Dowager Lady Nunburn* holme, is a J.P. The last president, the Marchioness of Aberdeen and Te> mair, has G.B.C.V LL.D., J.P. Of/the vice-presidents Dame Henrietta Barnett has D.B.E. and Dame Elizabeth Cadbury has D.B.E. and JJ*. Lady Davidson and Lady Emmott are both Justices'-.of the Peace.' Mrs. Ogilvie Gordon, D.Sc., Ph:D., F.L.S., J.P., an imposing list,1 and a number Of wellknown ladies following have both th« D.8.E., J.P., and. LLiD. Of the hori-. orary members, there are ho fewef than twelve M.P.s, including Viscbuh* tess Astor, Countess of Iveagh, Mrs. Ronald Copeland, Mrs. Runge, Mrs. Shaw,, Mrs. .H. B. Tate, Mrs.. W.. J. .Ward, Misses Thelma, Cazalet, Mar* jorie Graves, F. Horsbrugh, Megan Lloyd George, Eleanor Rathbone, and Irene Ward,- who also has the D.B.E. and. J.P- Even fifty years ago this list would .have been regarded as rather miraculous by some people, and as.highly improper by others, accord* , ing to their enlightenment. .