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From: "R & M Dunn" <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of "Esquire"
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:12:31 +1200
References: <3AF6307E.30278FD7@ns.sympatico.ca>


Hi Judy and other Listers,
When I was growing up in Edinburgh
in the 1950s' my father often received
mail addressed to:
"John POOL Esq."
I remember asking him once why
sometimes he was 'Mr'. & others 'Esquire.'

His answer was that 'Esquire' was more
often used in an official category.

(He was a Public Servant working
in The Department of Health for Scotland
at St. Andrews House, Edinburgh.)

I doubt that the title is used these days???
Regards,
Maureen Dunn ( nee POOL)


> Can anyone comment on the use of Esquire after a person's name in
> Scotland, if it was used there, how it started and what it means in
> modern terms? I know it was used in the 1950's and 60's in Nova Scotia.
> I seem to remember that when Esq. was used, as in "John Smith, Esq.", it
> was not correct to use "Mr." at the same time. A person on another list
> wondered about it, as have I.
> Judi Graham
>
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