title an auxiliary or substitute name usually used among the nobility; the t. may derive from a domain name or a surname; the t. is introduced in PS-RULE [PS15] as part of the postpositive title; the British t. is the name of the house (lineage), family or a surname described as part of the British Peerage (an authority), cf. chapter 2, §10; such a t. name included in the postpositive t. would be “…Howard, Baron Howard de Walden,” or with the house name used as a surname: “…Howard, Earl (of) Surrey”; cf. chapter 3, §3, ¶8; cf. also position