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Excerpt from Whitaker's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage for the Year 1907: Containing an Extended List of the Royal Family, the Peerage With Titled Issue, Dowager Ladies, Baronets Knights and Companions, Privy Councillors and Home and Colonial Bishops, With a Comprehensive Introduction and an Index to Country Seats One frequent difficulty tin this connection has been that of obtaining an answer to a query. Particularly has this been the case in the endeavour to ascertain how a name. Or title is pronounced. In many scores of instances the Editor has this year pointedly put the question as to whether a given utterance ought to be this or that and far too often, though happily not nearly always, the request has been absolutely ignored. We presume that it must, be prod voking to a titled person to hear his designation mispronounced; then why Will hefnot assist the effort towards putting the annoyance out of his way? Several amateurs from time to time have pressed us with their own accustomed methods, and in some cases they have been right, but in others egregiously Wrong. For the future we must restrict our acceptance of their statements to persons who can assert acquaintance with the families themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.