On 2013-07-07 22:55:11 +0000, Anne Chambers said: > Tickettyboo wrote: >> I am way out of my usual area here <I have a long line of Ag Labs and >> Anchor Smiths and haven't ever needed >> to venture up the 'posh end'> >> >> Trying to help a friend who is researching the history of a previous >> owner of a military sword, one John >> Duncan Bertie Fulton (1876-1915) >> In amongst the masses of paperwork he has collected about this man's >> career etc is confirmation from The >> Central Chancery if the Orders of Knighthood saying that, in 1914, he >> was amongst those "To be Ordinary >> Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of >> the Most Honourable Order of the Bath". >> >> Okay, so that is confirmed, but would this entitle his wife/widow to >> style herself as 'Lady Fulton'? >> >> > Companions of the Order of the Bath do not take the title of 'Sir' > (only Knights do) so his widow would not be entitled to call herself > Lady Fulton. If she had a title in her own right, she would call > herself Lady (forename) Fulton Thanks, that is what I thought from what I read on the net. -- Tickettyboo