baronetess

Updated: May 11, 2025

We should be accompanied by an equal number of gallant knights, our elder sons, who, the moment they come of age, have the right to claim knighthood of their sovereign, while their mothers and wives, no longer degraded to the nomenclature of a sheriff's lady, but resuming their legal or analogical dignities, and styled the 'honourable baronetess, with her coronet and robe, or the 'honourable knightess, with her golden collar of S.S., and chaplet or cap of dignity, may either accompany the procession, or ranged in galleries in a becoming situation, rain influence from above."

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - Sybil, or the Two Nations