The Right Honourable
# The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (abbreviato in The Rt Hon. o Rt Hon.) è un trattamento onorifico utilizzato nel Regno Unito, in Canada, Australia, Nuova Zelanda e in India, in alcuni degli altri reami del Commonwealth, nei Caraibi britannici, a Mauritius e occasionalmente in altri stati.

## Membri

Il trattamento spetta a:

* I membri del Consiglio privato di sua maestà del Regno Unito e del Consiglio Privato dell'Irlanda del Nord;
   * Sono inclusi fra questi l'attuale e tutti i precedenti Primi Ministri del Regno Unito e tutti gli attuali e precedenti membri del Gabinetto del Regno Unito, con l'eccezione di coloro che si sono dimessi dal Consiglio Privato.
* Baroni, visconti e conti; mentre marchesi hanno il trattamento di The Most Honourable o His Lordship e i duchi The Most Noble o His Grace;
* Alcune cariche canadesi come il Governatore Generale, il Primo ministro e il Chief Justice del Canada.

Il trattamento è inoltre legato ad alcune cariche, le persone che le ricoprono possono quindi utilizzarlo per il tempo in cui sono in carica. Fra questi:

* Il Lord Mayor di Londra, Cardiff, Belfast e York e quelli di Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane e Hobart;
* Il Lord Provost di Edimburgo e Glasgow.

## Utilizzo del trattamento onorifico

### Regno Unito

Il prefisso è abitualmente abbreviato in "The" in molte situazioni, ma mai per i Privati Consiglieri. Le seguenti persone hanno il diritto di utilizzo a titolo personale:

* Pari al di sotto del rango di marchese, cioè conti, visconti, e baroni, e loro coniugi. Pari che sono duchi sono in stile "il più nobile" o "sua grazia" e marchesi sono in stile "The Most Honourable".
* I membri del Consiglio della Corona del Regno Unito
* I membri del Consiglio privato di sua maestà dell'Irlanda del Nord.

Le seguenti persone hanno il diritto di stile ex officio. Lo stile viene aggiunto al nome dell'ufficio, non il nome della persona:

* Il Lord Mayor di Londra
* Il Lord Mayor di Cardiff
* Il Lord Mayor di Belfast
* Il Lord Mayor di York
* Il Lord Lyon, re d'arme
* Il Lord Provost di Edimburgo
* Il Lord Provost di Glasgow

### Australia

| Australiani in possesso del trattamento di The Right Honourable | Compiti istituzionali | Incarico precedente |
| - | - | - |
| Doug Anthony, AC, CH | Membro del Privy Council | Ex Vice primo ministro australiano |
| Ian Sinclair, AC | Membro del Privy Council | Ex Speaker della camera dei rapprentanti australiana |
| Sir Ninian Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC | Membro del Privy Council | Ex governatore generale australiano |
| Sir William Heseltine, GCB, GCVO, AC | Membro del Privy Council | Ex Private Secretary to the Sovereign |
| Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, OM, AC | Life peer | Ex Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government |
| Trixie Gardner, Baroness Gardner of Parkes, AM, JP | Life peer | Ex Councillor on the Westminster City Council |
| Malcolm Murray, XII conte di Dunmore | Earl of Dunmore | Membro della camera dei lord |
| Robert Fiennes-Clinton, XIX conte di Lincoln | Earl of Lincoln | |
| Simon Abney-Hastings, XV conte di Loudoun | Earl of Loudoun | |
| George Dawson-Damer, VII conte di Portarlington | Earl of Portarlington | |
| Keith Rous, VI conte di Stradbroke | Earl of Stradbroke | |
| Francis Grosvenor, VIII conte di Wilton | Earl of Wilton | |
| Nicholas St John, XIX visconte Bolingbroke, X visconte St John | Viscount Bolingbroke | |
| Charles Cavendish, VII barone Chesham | Baron Chesham | |
| James Lindsay, III bardone Lindsay of Birker | Baron Lindsay of Birker | |
| David Campbell, VII barone Stratheden and Campbell | Baron Stratheden | |

### Canada

In Canada, solo i responsabili dei più alti uffici pubblici possono fregiarsi del trattamento di "The Right Honourable" (Le très honorable è il termine francese usato dal governo federale). In precedenza, questo è stato in virtù della loro nomina al Privy Council of the United Kingdom. Tuttavia, gli appuntamenti canadesi al Privy British Council sono stati finiti da parte del governo di Lester Pearson.

Da allora, agli individui che detengono o hanno ricoperto, uno dei seguenti uffici viene assegnato il trattamento di Right Honourable a vita:

* Governor General of Canada
* Prime Minister of Canada
* Chief Justice of Canada

Il Governatore generale può conferire il trattamento a vita anche a canadesi illustri che non hanno ricoperto alcuna delle cariche per cui è previsto. Il trattamento è stato conferito alle seguenti persone:

* Paul Joseph James Martin (1992) - cabinet minister (Minister of External Affairs), Member of Parliament, Senator and diplomat
* Martial Asselin (1992) - federal cabinet minister, Member of Parliament, Senator (Speaker of the Senate) and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
* Ellen Fairclough (1992) - federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament; first woman in Canadian politics ever appointed to cabinet
* Jean-Luc Pépin (1992) - federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament; Chair of Anti-Inflation Board and Co-Chair of unity taskforce
* Alvin Hamilton (1992) - federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament
* Don Mazankowski (1992) - Deputy Prime Minister, federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament
* Jack Pickersgill (1992) - federal cabinet minister, Member of Parliament, and senior civil servant (Assistant Private Secretary and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, Clerk of the Privy Council; Chair of the Canadian Transport Commission)
* Robert Stanfield (1992) -federal Opposition Leader and Member of Parliament, provincial MLA and Premier of Nova Scotia
* Herb Gray (2002) - Deputy Prime Minister, federal cabinet minister, and Member of Parliament; the longest-serving MP in Canadian history

Per i Governatori generali in carica è possibile usare anche l'appellativo "His/Her Excellency". I membri del Privy Council e del Senate ricevono il trattamento di "The Honourable". Il trattamento di Right Honourable non si applica ai funzionari di livello provinciale.

Before the style of Right Honourable came into use for all Canadian prime ministers, three prime ministers did not have the style as they were not members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom. These three were the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie, the Hon. Sir John Abbott and the Hon. Sir Mackenzie Bowell.

Over the years, a number of prominent Canadians became members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and thus were entitled to use the style of Right Honourable, either because of their services in Britain (e.g. serving as envoys to London) or as members of the Imperial War Cabinet, or due to their prominence in the Canadian Cabinet. These include:

* Sir John A. Macdonald (1879) - first Prime Minister of Canada
* Sir John Rose (1886)- federal cabinet minister (Minister of Finance)
* Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (1894) - federal cabinet minister (Justice and Attorney General), Prime Minister of Canada
* Sir Samuel Henry Strong (1897) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1897) - Prime Minister of Canada
* Sir Richard John Cartwright (1902) - federal cabinet minister (Minister of Finance)
* Sir Henri Elzéar Taschereau (1904) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Sir Charles Tupper (1907) - federal cabinet minister (Inland Revenue, Customs, Public Works, Railways, Finance-Receiver General), Prime Minister of Canada, Premier of Nova Scotia, diplomat (High Commissioner to the UK)
* Sir Charles Fitzpatrick (1908) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
* Sir Robert Laird Borden (1912) - Prime Minister of Canada
* Sir George Eulas Foster (1916) - federal cabinet minister (Trade and Commerce), Senator
* Sir Louis Henry Davies (1919) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Premier of Prince Edward Island
* Sir Lyman Poore Duff (1919) - Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Administrator of Canada (acting Governor General of Canada)
* Arthur Lewis Sifton (1920) - Premier of Alberta and federal cabinet minister (Secretary of State, Public Works, Customs and Inland Revenue)
* Arthur Meighen (1920) - federal cabinet minister (Interior, Indian Affairs, Solicitor General, Secretary of State, Mines), Prime Minister of Canada and Senator
* Charles Doherty (1920) - federal cabinet minister (Justice and Attorney General)
* Sir William Thomas White (1920) - federal cabinet minister (Minister of Finance)
* William Lyon Mackenzie King (1922) - federal cabinet minister (Labour), Prime Minister of Canada and civil servant
* William Stevens Fielding (1923) - federal cabinet minister (Minister of Finance) and Premier of Nova Scotia
* Francis Alexander Anglin (1925) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
* Sir William Mulock (1925) - federal cabinet minister (Labour and Postmaster General), Chief Justice of Ontario, acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
* George Perry Graham (1925) - federal cabinet minister (Defence) and Senator
* R.B. Bennett (1930) - federal cabinet minister (Justice, Mines, Interior, Indian Affairs, Finance) Prime Minister of Canada, British member of the House of Lords
* Sir George Halsey Perley (1931) - federal cabinet minister and diplomat (High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)
* Ernest Lapointe (1937) - federal cabinet minister (Justice and Attorney General)
* Vincent Massey (1941) - Governor General of Canada and diplomat (United States, High Commissioner to the UK)
* Raoul Dandurand (1941) - federal cabinet minister (Leader of the Government in the Senate of Canada), Senator and Speaker of the Senate
* Louis St. Laurent (1946) - federal cabinet minister (Justice and Attorney General), Prime Minister of Canada
* James Lorimer Ilsley (1946) - federal cabinet minister (Finance, Justice (Attorney General), Revenue, Postmaster General) and Chief Justice of Nova Scotia
* Clarence Decatur Howe (1946) - federal cabinet minister (Transport, International Trade and Fisheries and Oceans)
* Ian Alistair Mackenzie (1947) - federal cabinet minister (Veterans Affairs, Immigration and Colonization, Indian Affairs, Health) and Senator
* James Garfield Gardiner (1947) - federal cabinet minister (Agriculture) and Premier of Saskatchewan
* Thibaudeau Rinfret (1947) - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and Administrator of Canada (acting Governor General of Canada)
* John George Diefenbaker (1957) - Prime Minister of Canada
* Georges-Philéas Vanier (1963) - Governor General of Canada and diplomat (France), Canadian Army commanding officer, aide-de-camp to Governor General of Canada
* Lester Bowles Pearson (1963) - federal cabinet minister (External Affairs), Prime Minister of Canada and diplomat (United States), Secretary of the UN General Assembly

| Canadesi viventi che hanno il trattamento di The Right Honourable | Luogo di nascita | Motivo | Nato | Conferimento |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Justin Trudeau | Ottawa, ON | Primo Ministro | 1971 | 2015 |
| Stephen Harper | Toronto, ON | Primo Ministro | 1959 | 2006 |
| Paul Martin | Windsor, ON | Primo Ministro | 1938 | 2003 |
| Jean Chrétien | Shawinigan, QC | Primo Ministro | 1934 | 1993 |
| Kim Campbell | Port Alberni, BC | Primo Ministro | 1947 | 1993 |
| Brian Mulroney | Baie-Comeau, QC | Primo Ministro | 1939 | 1984 |
| John Turner | Regno Unito | Primo Ministro | 1929 | 1984 |
| Joe Clark | High River, AB | Primo Ministro | 1939 | 1979 |
| David Johnston | Sudbury, ON | Governatore generale | 1941 | 2010 |
| Michaëlle Jean | Haiti | Governatore generale | 1957 | 2005 |
| Adrienne Clarkson | Hong Kong | Governatore generale | 1939 | 1999 |
| Ed Schreyer | Beausejour, MB | Governatore generale | 1935 | 1979 |
| Beverley McLachlin | Pincher Creek, AB | Chief Justice | 1943 | 2000 |
| Don Mazankowski | Viking, AB | Honorific | 1935 | 1992 |

### Irlanda

Members of the Privy Council of Ireland were entitled to be addressed as The Right Honourable, even after the Privy Council ceased to have any functions or to meet on the creation of the Irish Free State in December 1922. Nevertheless, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, like some of his counterparts in Great Britain, retained the use of the honorific style as a result of its having been conferred separately by legislation; in 2001 it was removed, as a consequence of local government law reform.

### Nuova Zelanda

In New Zealand, the Prime Minister and some other senior cabinet ministers were customarily appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and thus styled The Right Honourable. Senior New Zealand Judges are also often appointed as Privy Councillors.

In her resignation honours, the former prime minister Helen Clark did not recommend the appointment of any new Privy Councillors, and at present Winston Peters is the sole Privy Councillor in the New Zealand parliament. Privy Councillors recently retired from parliament include Clark, the former Speaker of the House Jonathan Hunt, and the former prime minister Jenny Shipley. In 2009 it was announced that the new Prime Minister John Key had decided not to make any further recommendations to the Crown for appointments to the Privy Council.

In August 2010, the Queen of New Zealand announced that, with immediate effect, individuals who hold, and those persons who after the date of the signing of these rules are appointed to, the following offices are awarded the style The Right Honourable for life:

* the Governor-General of New Zealand
* the Prime Minister of New Zealand
* the Chief Justice of New Zealand
* the Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives

This change was made because the practice of appointing New Zealanders to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom had ceased. However, the change had little immediate effect, as all but two of the holders or living former holders of the offices granted the style had already been appointed to the Privy Council.

The living New Zealanders holding the style "The Right Honourable" as a result of membership of the Privy Council are:

* Sir Duncan Wallace McMullin (1980)-court of appeal justice
* Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer (1985)-prime minister
* Sir (Johann) Thomas Eichelbaum (1989)-chief justice
* Jonathan Lucas Hunt (1989)-cabinet minister
* Sir Michael Hardie Boys (1989)-governor general
* Helen Elizabeth Clark (1990)-prime minister
* Michael Kenneth Moore (1990)-prime minister
* James Brendan Bolger (1991)-prime minister
* Sir Donald Charles McKinnon (1992)-deputy prime minister
* Sir William Francis Birch (1992)-cabinet minister
* Sir John Steele Henry (1996)-court of appeal justice
* Sir Edmund Walter Thomas (1996)-supreme court justice
* Dame Jenny Shipley (1998)-prime minister
* Winston Peters (1998)-deputy prime minister
* Sir Douglas Arthur Montrose Graham (1998)-cabinet minister
* Paul Clayton East (1998)-cabinet minister
* Sir Kenneth James Keith (1998)-court of appeal justice
* Sir Peter Blanchard (1998)-supreme court justice
* Sir Andrew Patrick Charles Tipping (1998)-supreme court justice
* Wyatt Beetham Creech (1998)-deputy prime minister
* Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias (1999)-chief justice
* Simon David Upton (1999)-cabinet minister

The living New Zealanders holding the style "The Right Honourable" for life as a result of the 2010 changes are:

| Name | Title | Date Appointed |
| - | - | - |
| Sir Anand Satyanand | Former Governor-General | 2 August 2010 |
| John Key | Former Prime Minister | 2 August 2010 |
| Sir Lockwood Smith | Former Speaker of the House of Representatives | 2 August 2010 |
| Sir Jerry Mateparae | Former Governor-General | 31 August 2011 |
| David Carter | Speaker of the House of Representatives | 1 February 2013 |
| Dame Patsy Reddy | Governor-General | 28 September 2016 |
| Bill English | Prime Minister | 12 December 2016 |

### Sri Lanka

In Sri Lanka, il primo ministro dell'indipendenza dello Sri Lanka (Ceylon), D.S. Senanayake è stato insignito del titolo "Mahamanya", che è la versione localizzata (in singalese) del trattamento di "The Right Honorable".

### Catalogna

Il Presidente della Generalitat de Catalunya in carica, a partire dal 1931, ha il trattamento di Molt Honorable, che è la traduzione catalana di "The Right Honourable".

