On Tuesday, in article
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     john.briggs4@ntlworld.com "John Briggs" wrote:

> "David G. Bell" wrote:
> > On Tuesday, in article
> >     
> >     waterfoot@gmail.com "John Bean" wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:23:18 GMT, "John Briggs"
> >>  wrote:
> >>> You are not in a position to make an informed judgement.
> >>
> >> You seem to know everythin John, even down to my "position".
> >> John Briggs, fount of all knowledge.
> >>
> >> Do carry on making a fool of yourself, it's amusing.
> >
> > I can see there being web pages getting this wrong.
> >
> > But the claim that this includes www.royal.gov.uk is a trifle far-
> > fetched. Similarly for Burke's Peerage: they're the professionals in
> > this.
> >
> > There's been flashes of jargon in this, and I wouldn't be surprised if
> > that jargon leads to misunderstandings, but I don't see any strong
> > evidence for Mr. Briggs' position, even if the rest of us have
> > misunderstood some terms.
> 
> Let's take the simplest case, which no-one has answered: the Chief of the 
> Naval Staff calls himself the First Sea Lord. What do you think he is a Lord 
> Commissioner of?

Does he have to be a Commissioner of anything.

And he doesn't "call himself" the First Sea Lord. It's what the Royal 
Navy calls him.

"First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff" is what the Royal Navy 
website calls him. He's on a list of "Naval Members of the Admiralty 
Board" which can be found on www.royal-navy.mod.uk

I think the Royal Navy might know what they are doing.

-- 
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