Buying lordship

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So I bought my dad "Lordship" as a fun present for Father's day and I'm wondering about the legality of it.

The website claims the deeds entitle him to call himself Lord [FirstName] [LastName] on legal documents like passport/driving licence/bank accounts....is this actually true?
 
To expand, you can buy a Lord of the Manor title, but this is completely different to being a Lord.

Several sites also claim that, by custom, the purchaser is entitled to use the title "Lord". They are not, of course. If Fred Smith were to buy the Lordship of Camberwick Green, his official title would be Fred Smith, Lord of the Manor of Camberwick Green. Calling himself Lord Camberwick Green could result in a prosecution for impersonating a peer of the realm.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4474461/Buy-a-title-and-lord-it-over-everyone.html
 
On your bank accounts - yes.

Driving licence, not sure.

On your passport - no :D My mate did this and put Lord XXX on his passport application, he got a call from the Passport Service a month later asking him to confirm his title as he did not appear anywhere in Burke's Peerage and Gentry :D :D

He did however, have Great Success with the second use on that headline :p

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Though this was with one of those bargain Scottish 'Laird' titles for 20 quid or whatever, the ones in the Telegraph article are more legit (and correspondingly more expensive) so you probably could do it on your passport with those.
 
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A Lordship or a Lairdship? big difference.

You can't buy Lord ships (well you can if you're a Tory and don't tell anyone about it!).
 
You can buy a Lord of the Manor title which is effectively buying some property rights. It doesn't make you a 'Lord' or give you the right to use 'Lord' in front of your name any more than buying a pub and becoming a 'landlord' does.

The only title you can buy is a Scottish Feudal Barony, this ranks lower than a peerage and while Joe Bloggs of Bloggshire could be addressed socially as Barron Bloggshire he apparently can't be referred to in the third person as 'the Barron of Bloggshire' as that would indicate a peerage.... or something like that....

I look at these things like personalised number plates - at face value they're a bit stupid and vain but on the other hand the right one might be a good investment. Americans in particular are interested in this sort of stuff.
 
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