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The style of address for the office of the lord mayors of Belfast, Cardiff, Bristol, the City of London, and York is The Right Honourable. All other lord mayors are The Right Worshipful. This refers only to the post, rather than the person. [1] The title Sir can be used for salutations when a lord mayor is being addressed. [7] [8]
Historically, don was used to address members of the nobility, e.g. hidalgos, as well as members of the secular clergy.The treatment gradually came to be reserved for persons of the blood royal, e.g. Don John of Austria, and those of such acknowledged high or ancient aristocratic birth as to be noble de Juro e Herdade, that is, "by right and heredity" rather than by the king's grace.
The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London, England, and the leader of the City of London Corporation.Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign [1] and retains various traditional powers, rights, and privileges, including the title and style The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London.
In the Spanish colonial era, Philip II of Spain decreed that the nobility in the Philippine islands should retain their pre-hispanic honours and privileges. [ b ] In the modern times, these are retained on a traditional basis as the 1987 Constitution explicitly reaffirms the abolition of royal and noble titles in the republic.
English Title — The title of the English text, as it appears in the particular translation. Because one Spanish title may suggest alternate English titles (e.g. Life is a Dream, Life's a Dream, Such Stuff as Dreams are Made Of), sorting by this column is not a reliable way to group all translations of a particular original together; to do so ...
The institution was established also in Spanish America during the conquest and the Spanish Philippines, where it was also known by the names justicia mayor [citation needed] and alcalde mayor [citation needed] (not to be confused with the alcaldes ordinarios of the cabildo). In Indian areas the office was known as the corregidor de indios.
The new Lord Mayor rode in his official state coach (Jonathan Brady/PA) The pageant dates back to the early 13th century and included more modern touches including the cast of the musical Grease ...
The mayor of Copenhagen is however called overborgmester 'lord mayor'. In that city other mayors, borgmestre (plural), are subordinate to the lord mayor with different undertakings, like ministers to a prime minister. In other municipalities in Denmark there is only a single mayor. Document of 1389 on the election of the Mayor of Stockholm