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An order of precedence is a sequential hierarchy of importance applied to individuals, [1] groups, or organizations. For individuals, ...
The United States order of precedence is an advisory document maintained by the Ceremonials Division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States which lists the ceremonial order, or relative preeminence, for domestic and foreign government officials (military and civilian) at diplomatic, ceremonial, and social events within the United States and abroad.
Precedence may refer to: Message precedence of military communications traffic; Order of precedence, the ceremonial hierarchy within a nation or state; Precedence (mathematics) for defining the order of operations in a computation; Precedence Entertainment, a defunct American game publisher
Indonesian order of precedence; Order of precedence in Ireland (1897–1922) Order of precedence in the Republic of Ireland; Order of precedence in the Isle of Man; Israeli order of precedence; Italian order of precedence
A peer derives his precedence from his highest-ranking title; peeresses derive their precedence in the same way, whether they hold their highest-ranking title in their own right or by marriage. The ranks in the tables refer to peers rather than titles: if exceptions are named for a rank, these do not include peers of a higher rank (or any peers ...
The order of precedence in the United Kingdom is the sequential hierarchy for Peers of the Realm, officers of state, senior members of the clergy, holders of the various Orders of Chivalry, and is mostly determined, but not limited to, birth order, place in the line of succession, or distance from the reigning monarch.
While the actual precedence depends on the rank itself, and sometimes more specifically on the monarchy, rather than on the style of address, the holders tend to end up roughly in the following order of precedence: His/Her Imperial and Royal Highness (HI&RH) His/Her Imperial Highness (HIH) His/Her Royal Highness (HRH)
Prior to that date, he was officially appointed as “Her Majesty’s Lieutenant of and in etc,” and the title Lord Lieutenant (unhyphenated) was a mere colloquialism. The title is now hyphenated and the plural is “Lord-Lieutenants.” Meanwhile, the anti-establishment Guardian insists on lord lieutenant no hyphen, plural lords lieutenant