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Originally Posted by issybird
I ran across one recently where the murder victim, an orphan, was a boy who was an Hon. I kept thinking that the resolution of the story would have something to do with inheriting the title the honorific derived from, but no. Well into the book it was stated that he had no living relatives other than a maternal uncle.
Not possible. And this was a Golden Age mystery where the author really, really must have known better.
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Actually not.
Suppose the boy's father was a Life Peer. Then he gets "Hon" but inherits nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_peer
the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1887 allowed senior judges to sit in the House of Lords as life peers, known as Lords of Appeal in Ordinary.[1]