Talk:William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle

VC
The second para while perfetly ok seems oddly placed and slightly confusing appearing as it does straight after the opening statement. Perhaps it would be better placed after the section on his wartime service under a sub section victoria cross.Alci12 12:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Copyright problem
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Controversies/slim majority
There were no political or constitutional controversies during his term, even though the Menzies Liberal government until November 1963 enjoyed a majority in the House of Representatives of just 2 seats.


 * Not sure what this is saying. A majority is a majority, and as long as everyone turns up for the vote, the government is in control.  On the other hand, there are always political controversies - but not necessarily ones that would be remembered and written about for generations.  Can anyone elucidate this sentence?  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  03:03, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Leaving House of Commons
He is stated to have succeeded to his father's peerage in June 1945, requiring translation to the House of Lords and then that he retired at the July 1945 General Election (held later than June and before September 1945). Surely his father's succession would have taken the decision not to contest the election out of his hands, unless he had announced his decision before his father's death. This needs clarifying.Cloptonson (talk) 13:12, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Post-nominal letters
Do you have a source for what you were saying about the practices regarding the post-nominal letters for the Order of St John being different during Viscount De L'Isle's lifetime? And I'm still unclear as to the rationale for the deviation from the standard post-nominal letter formatting. 142.160.131.202 (talk) 04:34, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I've wondered about this too. Our article Order of Saint John (chartered 1888) states "post-nominal letters of the order are not generally used outside the organisation itself, except in biographical entries, and a Knight and Dame may not use the prefix Sir or Dame". Ivar the Boneful (talk) 06:32, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Ivar the Boneful, you seem to have answered this query with your own quote, viz: "post-nominal letters of the order are not generally used ... except in biographical entries". Further, per Australia, for instance, followed the British precedent of using postnominals within the Order of St John until Australia federally ceased to use them in 1982 (though Britain continued to do so). However, and regardless of whether 'KStJ' is included or not, there is no reason to alter the sizing of the postnominals within this article. 85% sizing is hardly the standard – full size is the most consistently used in articles on British (and Australian) military figures. Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 05:25, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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