Honorific

An honorific (sometimes in British English given the non-standard spelling "honourific") is a polite title that is given before a person's name. They include "Dr", "Mr", "Sir", "Esquire", "Lord", "Count", "Chevalier", "Mrs", "Miss", "Countess", "Dame" and "Lady".

People by title

Dr

• Dr Carne
• Dr Cooper
• Hannah Relf
• Leonard Broken Arrow
• Malcolm Polstead
• Martin Lanselius
• Mary Malone
• Oliver Payne

Captain

• Captain Hudson
• Captain Magnusson
• H van Breda
• Nicholas Rokeby

Count

• Count Belacqua
• Carlo Boreal

Countess

• Countess Belacqua

Chevalier

• Chevalier Tialys

Dame

• Hannah Relf

Lady

• Lady Salmakia

Lord

• Carlo Boreal
• John Faa
• Lord Asriel
• Lord Roke
• Lord Rukh
• Thomas Nugent

Sir

• Arthur Blomfield
• Carlo Boreal
• W.G. Hebblewhite

Behind the scenes

• The use in Lyra's world of the title "Count" is one of the many differences between Lyra's world and ours. In our world, although most English-language aristocratic titles are French, one exception is that instead of the French "Count" we use the German "Earl".