Addressing a Professional - HELP

[labbot]

Which is the correct version?

C Bond Esq MRICS FAAV

C Bond MRICS FAAV Esq

C Bond MRICS FAAV

Esq or no Esq? Or where to be placed?

[ieatbees]

In a book of Etiquette that is here at work it says, "If you want to use Esq (at own judgement), it should directly follow the name, if there are professional qualifications they should follow after a comma. I'm not sure how relevant this is as it was written in 1951.

Personally i wouldn't use Esq - it is a bit too formal. But use a comma after the name, and before qualifications.

[paddy_36]

I was always led to believe that you should only use esquire if there are no other letters after the name. So in the example you give, I would not use Esq at all.

I think its use is a bit over- formal nowadays anyway, as ieatbees says.

[gw1]

Forget the the Esq - (1) it's old fashioned, (2) it's not necessary or relevant with with other qualifications, (3) it's now more common to use a title - Prof, Dr, Mr and you don't use both (title & Esq).

[january_bug]

As we all know Esq = Mr, so it would only ever be used to replace that anyway.

One person's formal, is another's "traditional". I've worked in a stockbrokers where Esq was used becaues it was a long standing family business with traditional values etc etc. So I don't see that there's any harm in using Esq. :-)

Esq would definitely go BEFORE the letters, and if you're dropping it, a more formal letter would of course use "Mr" instead.

[Aquagility]

Never use the letters unless writing on a relevant technical subject. Plain Mr C Bond is enough, especially if you are just paying his bill!