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Hi Hogyncymru (apologies for stumbling across you once again),
Can you explain what you mean about your edit changing "styled Lord Cochrane between 1860 and 1885" to "...and 1886"?
Lord Cochrane is the junior subsidiary title of Earl of Dundonald, so was used by Douglas Cochrane as a courtesy title while he was heir to the Earldom; until 1885, when his father died (apologies, I wrote brother in the edit summary) and he became Earl Dundonald. He wouldn't have been styled Lord Cochrane after that, because he was the Earl of Dundonald. Unless you think his father didn't die in 1885?
I don't understand the relevance of your edit summaries on either the change or the revert ('he was a peer until 86' or 'not the same person')? TSP ( talk) 12:43, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, marquess or earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy". Hence, until 1885, Douglas was known as Lord Cochrane.
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Hi Hogyncymru (apologies for stumbling across you once again),
Can you explain what you mean about your edit changing "styled Lord Cochrane between 1860 and 1885" to "...and 1886"?
Lord Cochrane is the junior subsidiary title of Earl of Dundonald, so was used by Douglas Cochrane as a courtesy title while he was heir to the Earldom; until 1885, when his father died (apologies, I wrote brother in the edit summary) and he became Earl Dundonald. He wouldn't have been styled Lord Cochrane after that, because he was the Earl of Dundonald. Unless you think his father didn't die in 1885?
I don't understand the relevance of your edit summaries on either the change or the revert ('he was a peer until 86' or 'not the same person')? TSP ( talk) 12:43, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
If a peer of one of the top three ranks of the peerage (a duke, marquess or earl) has more than one title, his eldest son – himself not a peer – may use one of his father's lesser titles "by courtesy". Hence, until 1885, Douglas was known as Lord Cochrane.