Talk:Stephen Benn, 3rd Viscount Stansgate

Notability as viscount
As he is now a viscount, which he was not in 2009, he is now notable. Notability may not be inherited but titles are. PatGallacher (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Do we have any source that he is a Right Honourable? I don't see him on a list of members of the Privy Council? PatGallacher (talk) 00:12, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * All earls, viscounts and barons are Right Honourable. Mhardcastle (talk) 09:32, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Have any statements been made by the current (3rd) "Viscount Stansgate" as to his intentions regarding the title? (I doubt they have been made recently- I suspect he has other more pressing matters at the present moment- but perhaps he has in the past?) Indeed he was at the House of Commons for tributes to his father and was referred to the Speaker as "Stephen" rather than Viscount Stansgate- whether this was because it was due to more modern forms of address used often nowadays (e.g. Viscount Stephen Benn) especially as the Speaker referred to him in the same sentence as his brother, "Stephen and Hilary" or was it because he had already been to the House of Lords to hand in the paperwork disclaiming the peerage. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.186.173 (talk) 00:07, 19 March 2014 (UTC)


 * If he disclaims it, it'll show up in official paperwork soon enough. In the meantime, if an article exists at all it should be at the name with the title in, 'cos that's the Wikipedia-notable thing about him - note that a previous "Stephen Benn" article was deleted for lack of notability - David Gerard (talk) 13:20, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The third Viscount inherited the title at the instant of his father's death, he does not need to request or be granted the title - it's automatic. If it turns out that he doesn't want it, then under the Peerage Act 1963, he has twelve months inclusive of the day that he inherited - that is, until 13 March 2015 - in which to inform the Lord Chancellor that he wishes to disclaim the peerage. Disclaimed peerages are always listed in The London Gazette (see for example, item headed "Crown Office"), and are usually also shown in The Times and possibly The Daily Telegraph. -- Red rose64 (talk) 19:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)