Noble Titles

What an unbelievable load of old hogwash can be found on this site, rather grandly called Noble Titles. As the owner seems to be curiously shy about allowing me to link to his site, I suggest, if you wish to find it, that you go to Google, and input ‘Noble Tiltles’ into the Search. At first sight they appear to offer you the opportunity to buy a genuine Lordship of the Manor - and indeed the odd example may be authentic - but then give themselves away by stating:

“We offer a range of title services which enable our clients to use the title of Lord of the Manor, Lady of the Manor or Baron. Our company's service is based on the fact that the English Legal system allows titles to be claimed and registered, if it can be proved that there are no living descendants or heirs to the title in question. Technically, we are able to register a "possessory title", which can be sold on for a fee. We make extensive searches of records and archives to ensure that the Titles can be sold, and you can be sure that the Titles are sound.”

Or put another way, they find somewhere that does not have a Lordship of the Manor, and then create one; selling it on to the unsuspecting purchaser at a huge mark-up on their tiny costs. A renowned expert on Lordships of the Manor commented to me: “Lordships are property, as if they were a house, one can no more reconstitute in a third party ownership of a Lordship than one could claim ownership of my house or yours, and then sell them.” However, they are not cheap either: “Prices start from £4,500 per title, with prices depending on the history and Manor name.”

The owner of Titles of Nobility further shoots himself in the foot with the answers on their Frequently Asked Questions page, which you should find easily on the Noble Titles site, for instance: “What is the correct form of address? Answer: Once you have acquired your English manor title, the correct form of address for the fictional town of Nobletown is: "Arthur John Smith, Lord of the Manor of Nobletown"

Whilst this is to be used for legal purposes, in the same context that we don't use middle names when introducing ourselves, or on letters or business cards, modern day names and titles are often abbreviated. This practice is known as 'Custom and practice' i.e. "Lord Nobletown" or "Lord of Nobletown". This practice is permitted providing that the use of the 'styled titled name' is not to be used to purport to be a peer of the realm, or to deceive in any way. We do not purport to sell peerages or titles of dignity. This conforms with "right to peaceful enjoyment of possession", as laid down by the substantive law of the European Convention of Human Rights: first protocol - Article 1.” No, no and no again.

Almost every week they are also offering their re-constituted Manorial Lordships on eBay; sadly eBay hides behind its normal smokescreen that it is up to the buyer to check - it is a quite disgraceful situation that eBay allows these sales to continue and is totally unprepared to take any action to stop its customers from being cheated out of their money, time and time again.

Apparently the titles are guaranteed by a London & Cambridge Barrister’s opinion (supported by Unlimited Liability Insurance of the Bar Council). Though Mark Stobbs of the Bar Council has never heard of this!! How can a solicitor - Leonard Warner of Steyning - continue to lend credibility to this tissue of lies and make believe?

In the past they have offered a new and strangely unknown “Co-ownership of a Lordship of the Manor”, which according to them enabled you to buy a share in a Manorial Lordship, and use the ‘title’ along with all the other shareholders. What a wizard wheeze; maybe the Royal Family could adopt the idea, and sell off Prince Charles in shares of 5% - think of the money that they could raise in this fashion! However, they seem to have dropped this now.

At least they have finally stopped selling ‘titles’ on behalf of David Howe, the pretentious King-David-of-Mann American businessman, who proclaimed himself King of Mann - the Isle of Man is an attractive tax haven between England and Ireland, and is a British crown dependency - simply because nobody disputed his notice in The London Gazette. Hopefully this was before anyone had been daft enough to part with money for one of these worthless trifles.

He is actually an auto window repair man from Maryland, and has been involved in various fantasy ventures before, such as Vikesland. If you are intrigued, you can find out more on Unreal Royal.

I need to add a further warning as they have also in the past besmirched the reputation of the genuine Knights Templar, by selling ‘so called titles’, justifying that with the claim that.

“The Hereditary Knights Templar of Britannia has been legally rehabilitated and registered as a religious Order with all ancestral heritage rights and privileges restored "fons honorum". Since the Dissolution 1538 when Henry VIII dissolved all monasteries, religious houses, and religious Orders, including the Templars, Knights Hospitallers, and Gilbertine monasteries & nunneries, the rights of a Grand Master to issue “Titles of Nobility” has been outlawed. Members of these outlawed Orders were persecuted and killed, therefore these Orders went underground, and became secret organizations. They would meet in secret, often at different locations and maintain their hereditary “Titles of nobility” through their ancestral direct line, that is from father to son, or grandfather to grandson, except in such instances in which descent also included the female line where no male line existed. The secrecy of many Templar Orders prevail to this day in England & France, where tradition of secrecy is still encouraged and practiced. With the introduction and loosening of laws pertaining to religious Orders and the rights of freedom of consciousness, thought and religion in the “Human Rights Act 1999” such titles granted by the Order are legally accepted as “Titles of Nobility of a Order”.

Maybe the Knights Templar took action to prevent this abuse, as this again has been removed.

If you have inadvertently purchased a ‘title’ of any type from either Graham Fothergill, Paul Dunkley, John Faulks, C.S. Dunkley or any other person at the company or had something transferred to you through Leonard Warner, their solicitor, please contact me as there are other aggrieved new owners of their ‘titles’ who have been in touch with me.