Sir Mark Thatcher

Booldawg | 13:15 Wed 17th Apr 2013 | ChatterBank

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What did he get a knighthood for? The only time you usually hear about him is when he's in some ridiculuos and embarrassing scenario.

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paddy11

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Oh give the guy a break! wE ALL GO ON AND ON AND ON about him 'getting lost'....he was the the Sahara for goodness sake! Not on a political employ.... on a 'time off' ....he's an astute business man and everyone always has to jump on the bloody media bandwagon when you know absolutely Nothing about him he's lost his mum for God's sake...give it up!

14:03 Wed 17th Apr 2013

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DJHawkes

i think (but hope i am wrong) his mother's was an hereditary peerage, can't believe he's the nerve to live off the back of that but it may be so

Booldawg

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ok just found this;

Thatcher is entitled the usage of the pre-nominal style "The Honourable" following the elevation of his mother to the peerage as a baroness in 1992

would seem to be the case Dot!

Barmaid

It was his father's hereditary peerage. He was created 1st Baronet of Scotney. Because HE was created a baronet, his wife could be called Lady Thatcher yet retain her seat in the House of Commons.

FredPuli43

He's a knight because his father was made a baronet, Sir Denis Thatcher Bt. Baronetcies pass by descent, so he became a baronet too.

jake-the-peg

Ironic that the first woman prime minister should be honoured by her husband being created a Baronet and it being passed down the male line

DJHawkes

doed that mean that dennis's first wife could remain a baroness too?

Barmaid

Well she was granted a life peerage in her own right on her retirement from the Commons.

Barmaid

What, you mean on the death of her Baronet husband? I'm not sure what the protocol is, but I think she would become the dowager baroness and the son becomes the 4th Baronet.

DJHawkes

no his first wife not maggie

Barmaid

THat's what I meant Dot. First wife married the 3rd Baronet of Wightwick. Had she not remarried, she would not have been entitled to use the title of Baroness through Denis as their marriage had previously ended in divorce.

DJHawkes

ah right, hey didn;t have kids either .

FredPuli43

Denis's first wife was not his wife when he became a baronet, so no, she would not be entitled to the title of Lady. He was not entitled to be styled Lord, and wasn't, because the husband of a baroness is not termed Lord. A life peer's wife, like a knight's wife, is styled Lady, however, hence Helen Wogan being referred to as the "the present Lady Wogan" by Terry Wogan. What happens when one of a lesbian couple, joined in a civil union, becomes a baroness is yet to be determined; you could have two Lady Jones !