Female Archbishop of Canterbury

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow She was awarded it for services to nursing and mid-wifery: it is not an inherited title.

@FreddieUK Yeah. Learned that when I looked her up.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow She is not an aristocrat - of whom there are few now, in Britain at least.

Titles like Dame are honorary accolades by the State, thanking their recipients for meritorious service.

Sarah Mullally was a professional nurse in the National Health Service, who rose to head of nursing within the NHS.

Later, she became ordained as an Anglican priest, and subsequently rose to the rank of Bishop, her diocese being that of London.

@ArishMell Yes I know that. I looked her up. But aristocratic titles makes it so you can't assume someone is at their position based on merit is all. Which is why I looked her up.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I see what you mean but I've never thought that at all.

@ArishMell I did because even in Canada we have had lords who literally got their title for being rich. Conrad Black comes immediately to mind.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Conrad Black got his title for "services" to the British Conservative Party when he owned the Daily Telegraph.

@SunshineGirl But when you look into what that actually involved it was being a wealthy supporter and nothing more. He didn't actually do anything much.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yep, that's what most political appointees are like . . the editorial line of his newspaper was dogmatically conservative at a time when significant numbers of people still read newspapers.

@SunshineGirl For sure. He was a propagandist for the Conservative Party of Canada too.