Talk:Lord President of the Council

message: I am right in thinking the plural of Lord President is Lords President, aren't I?  Mothers-in-law and so on... Harris 20:39, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. In this case the head-word of the noun phrase is "President", with "Lord" being an adjective signifying how important this particular President is. (Mothers-in-law are mothers, but Lord Presidents are Presidents, not Lords. [They may also be Lords, but that's incidental to the matter of them being Lord Presidents.]) Proteus (Talk) 00:19, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes sense.  I'll get me coat. Harris 13:51, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

message: Someone's moved :Category:Lord Presidents of the Council to (the incorrect, as per the discussion above) :Category:Lords President of the Council, but I have no idea how category renaming works. I'm a bit annoyed that it works in a way that doesn't even bother checking the talk page of the associated article, but hey. Proteus (Talk) 16:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I'm not sure "Lord Presidents" is correct. Apart from its appearance in a parliamentary report , "Lords President of the Council" is the form used by two respectable publications that carefully distinguish singular and plural forms,  and . The only published source for Lord Presidents I can find online is a reprint of an historical book that seems somewhat out of date.--Lo2u 22:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The category was changed to "Lords President", but for some reason it has been changed back... Ardric47 23:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, someone asked me to change it back claiming that "Lord Presidents" was correct ... gahhh ... okay, here's what's going to happen.  I'm going to be doing other stuff for a few days, and once you guys hammer this out here, leave me a message on my talk page and I'll have Cydebot go through again and make sure everything is perfect.  --Cyde↔Weys 15:54, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: I've been working on the list of office holders and can't seem to find a source on Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel holding the office at any point. His Wikipedia page suggests he was a prominent member of the Tudor court but nothing specific about holding the title. I've taken him out of the list, but if there are sources to verify him holding the position it would be pertinent to put him back in. 
Another issue is that a lot of the early office holders don't have any information in the ministerial portfolio column— it may be helpful to broaden the scope here to include other offices appointed by the Crown. Many of the early Lord Presidents concurrently served as Lord-Lieutenants and custodes rotulorum for multiple counties; I think this information would be an interesting addition, but more importantly helps demonstrate the evolution of this sinecure office and to whom it was granted. Furthermore, column after column of blankspace is honestly very boring visually. Unless there are any strong objections I'll work on this shortly. ToastButterToast (talk) 10:30, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early office holders 

message: Viscount Whitelaw never served as Deputy Prime Minister; he was Home Secretary, Deputy Conservative Party Leader and then Lord President; DPM was not reconstituted until Howe in '88, at which time Thatcher's press secretary ridiculed the significance of the office to the press. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 17:17, 16 September 2018 (UTC)
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