This rank and style was conferred upon the Lord Mayor of Belfast by GEORGE V in March, 1923.
The prefix usually indicates that a person is a privy counsellor; though in the case of lord mayors of London, Belfast, Cardiff, York etc it indicates the status of a baron.
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| Alderman Jim Rodgers OBE (Image: Belfast City Hall) |
Alderman Jim Rodgers OBE, 52nd Lord Mayor of Belfast, held office in 2001-2 and 2007-8.
The mayoral robe is probably made of black silk damask, trimmed with gold lace.
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| The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Lord Chancellor, 2015-16 |
The Lord Chancellor wears similar attire on ceremonial and state occasions.
A white lace jabot and white lace cuffs can also be worn.
Pictured above is the Rt Hon Sir William George Turner (a privy counsellor), Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1924-28, accompanying HRH Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood.
First published in July, 2016.
3 comments :
Rt. Hon. Is tricky. MPs and even Hons are sometimes incorrectly upgraded. It is correctly conferred on all Peers, Privy Councillors and as I now know the Mayor of Belfast. Incidentally he was unlucky. It became the custom under Queen Victoria to make Mayors of cities she visited Baronets. I stand to be corrected in all of this because, as I say, it's tricky.
Several Lord Mayors were indeed created baronets, including Clark & McConnell.
On a tangent: Derby wasn't a city until Jubilee year, 1977. However, I know that Queen Victoria knighted Sir Alfred Seale Haslam at the railway station when she came to visit the town and open the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
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