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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
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] |
If the boy's father had been a senior judge, it would have come up in the book. The implication was that he was a standard Hon, but the author didn't think through the ramifications of that.