PECULIARITIES OF BARONETAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 59, 18 June 1910, Page 10

PECULIARITIES OF BARONETAGE.

One of the peculiarities of the baronetage is that while the precedence of a baronet is before all knights save Knights of the Carter, that of his wife is .before the wives of all knights; and' bis eideat son <md daughter rank ueiore the ehild.ren of all knights. So that if there were another instance of a K.G. who had no higher title, all baronets' wives would precede 'his wife anil the eldest sorts and all daughters of baronets would precede hi* children. An- ] other curious thing is that a baronet's patent virtually creates his wife a baronetess in her own right. . She is a la lv "for and during her natural life," whereas the style of .precedence of peers' wives continue*only during their widowhood. A baronet's wife's stj'le is 'lady, madame or dame"; and I think that the stricti consequence of the terms of a baronetf*patent is that the widow of Sir Ai. B.' marrying Mr. G. could call herself Daily C. with perfect legal impunity—that is, instead of calling themselves Mr. C. and Lady 8., she and her second faisbamt could toe announced as Mr. and Lady €. This curious departure from invariable custom has passed almost without notice, .but there is no doubt that every .baronet's patent creates two lifeholders of the dignity,—The Graphic.