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Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.
Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.
Post-nominal letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, office, or honour. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters. Honours are listed first in descending order of precedence, followed by degrees and memberships of learned societies in ascending order.
Members or former members of the higher judiciary who are King's Counsel do not use the post-nominal letters KC. Due to the various honours bestowed on members of the judiciary and traditions associated with the varying levels, their personal titles and forms of address often change as they progress in a judicial career.
Its present day legitimacy is a matter of debate, but it has variously been recognised by UK heraldic authorities through history with its post-nominals listed in "Debrett's Baronetage of England" and "A Key to Both Houses of Parliament" until the 20th Century. Admiral Nelson received the honour after his victory at the Battle of the Nile.
Post-nominal letters United Kingdom 10 March 1989 Commander of the Royal Victorian Order [16] CVO 2 June 2003 Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order [17] KCVO 10 March 2011 Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order [18] GCVO Canada 11 May 2005 Member of the Saskatchewan Order of Merit [19] SOM United Kingdom 1 August 2004
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Order of Precedence for post-nominals is in List of post-nominal letters (United Kingdom) Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] This template is used on approximately 29,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed.