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Forms of address used in the United Kingdom are given below.

Abbreviations

 * His/Her Majesty: HM (pl. TM)
 * His/Her Royal Highness: HRH (pl. TRH)
 * The Most Noble: TN
 * The Most Honourable: The Most Hon (The Most Honble)
 * The Right Honourable: The Rt Hon (The Rt Honble)
 * The Honourable: The Hon (The Honble)
 * The Much Honoured: The Much Hon (The Much Hon'd)
 * The Most Reverend: The Most Rev (The Most Revd or The Most Rev'd)
 * The Right Reverend: The Rt Rev (The Rt Revd or The Rt Rev'd)
 * The Very Reverend: The Very Rev (The Very Revd or The Very Rev'd)
 * The Reverend: The Rev (The Revd or The Rev'd)
 * The Venerable: The Ven (The Venble)

Right Honourable
The punctuation of "The Rt Hon" (abbreviation of "The Right Honourable") is not consistent throughout sources. The Gazette favours "The Rt. Hon.", while the government usually prefers "The Rt Hon" or "The Rt Hon."

The House of Lords and the College of Arms have discontinued the use of "The Right Honourable" unless the person is a Privy Counsellor. Instead, the post-nominal letters of "PC" are used.

Names and territorial designations

 * "London" represents the territorial designation of any peerage.
 * "Edinburgh" represents any territorial designation in Scotland.
 * "John" and "William" represent any male name
 * "Jane" and "Mary" represent any female name.
 * "Smith" and "Brown" represent any lastname, regardless of gender.

In regards to the nobility, Mary Brown represents a woman who married John Brown, while Jane Smith represents an unmarried woman.

The definite article "the" in the middle of two or more titles is sometimes capitalized, as in these tables. However this is controversial: traditional British guides use the lower-case "the". As a single example, Debrett's gives "Major-General the Lord ...", and Pears' Cyclopaedia in the section on Modes of Address gives several examples where the definite article interior to a list of honours is lower case.

Royal Family
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Peerage
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Dowagers and former wifes of peers
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Eldest sons of dukes, marquesses and earls
Eldest sons of dukes, marquesses and earls use their father's most senior subsidiary title as courtesy titles: note the absence of "The" before the title. If applicable, eldest sons of courtesy marquesses or courtesy earls also use a subsidiary title from their (great) grandfather, which is lower ranking than the one used by their father. Eldest daughters do not have courtesy titles; all courtesy peeresses are wives of courtesy peers.

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Heirs of Scottish peers
Heirs-apparent and heirs-presumptive of Scottish peers use the titles "Master" and "Mistress"; these are substantive, not courtesy titles. If, however, the individual is the eldest son of a Duke, Marquess or Earl, then he uses the appropriate courtesy title, as noted above.

Sons of Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts and Barons
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Daughters of Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts and Barons
If a daughter of a peer or courtesy peer marries another peer or courtesy peer, she takes her husband's rank. If she marries anyone else, she keeps her rank and title, using her husband's surname instead of her maiden name.

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==Gentry and minor nobility ==

Baronetage
Knights and Baronets are distinguished by the use of "Bt" (or, archaically, "Bart") after the latter's names (and by the use of the appropriate post-nominal letters if the former are members of an Order of Chivalry).

Church of England
Similar styles are also applied to clergy of equivalent status in other religious organisations. The words clergy and cleric/clerk are derived from the proper term for bishops, priests and deacons still used in legal documents: Clerk in Holy Orders (e.g. "Vivienne Frances Faull, Clerk in Holy Orders").

Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland, as a Presbyterian church, recognizes state-awarded titles only as courtesy. In court (assembly, presbytery and session) a person may only be addressed as Mr, Mrs, Miss, Dr, Prof, etc. depending on academic achievement. Thus ministers are correctly addressed as, for example, Mr Smith or Mrs Smith unless they have a higher degree or academic appointment e.g. Dr Smith or Prof. Smith. It is 'infra dig' to use the style 'Rev' and even the use of 'the Rev Mr' requires sensitivity to official style.

England and Wales
A judge's first name only forms part of their judicial style if, at the time of their appointment, there is a senior judge with the same or a similar surname. Thus, if there is a "Mr Justice Smith", subsequent judges will be "Mr Justice John Smith", "Mrs Justice Mary Smith", etc. High Court Judges and above who are Queen's Counsel do not use the post-nominal letters following appointment or after retirement.

A member of the Bar (but not a solicitor) addresses a circuit judge or higher, out of court, as "Judge".

Academics
The forms of address used for academics can, in most cases, be either formal or social.