Lady Arbuthnot of Edrom

[colinp]

From the London Gazette 3 February 2021:

Crown Office

THE QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 1 February 2021 to appoint Emma Louise Lady Arbuthnot of Edrom to be a Justice of Her Majesty's High Court.

No doubt she will receive the customary DBE

[malcolm davies]

Note that women are discriminated favourably in such appointments-male High Court judges are made Knights Bachelor but women are made Dame Companions of the British Empire.I know there is no female equivalent of Knight Bachelor,but the point should be made nonetheless.

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

I wonder what will happen in the future, when an appointee does not conform to either male or female with regards to such appointments. Its is already happening.. same goes for life peerages and even marriages with a titled folk.  

[marquess]

The reality is that unless one happens to be a hermaphrodite, then one is either a man or woman. All the other fashionable nonsense is completely arbitrary and subjective. No is compelled to accept a traditional honour.

[www.maltagenealogy.com]

Well, it will be a wait and see if it happens one day. I am sure it will be newsworthy being the first not wanting to be a Dame or Knight or opposite to what they were born with. Like most things, everything gets tested.

[www.lordmountbattenofburma.com]

Oh dear - we appear to have reverted back to the 19th Century....  "hermaphrodite" and "fashionable nonsense" - really?????  could you not at least refrain from such inflammatory statements please.  Not helpful or wanted.

[colinp]

The Court Circular recorded on 16 March that Lady Arbuthnot of Edrom (Hon Mrs Justice Arbuthnot of Edrom) was invested DBE at Windsor Castle  by The Prince of Wales on behalf of The Queen - among a batch of 31 High Court Judges invested or knighted at the same time - quite a backlog must have built up during the pandemic