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SCMP Reporter

YOUR correspondent (letter headlined, '' 'Right Honourable' wrong title'', South China Morning Post, November 27) invited comment on the form of address for the Governor and on the use of the style the ''Right Honourable''.

  The correct form of address for the Governor on formal or ceremonial occasions is ''The Right Honourable Christopher Patten, Governor of Hong Kong,'' or the shorter form ''The Rt Hon Christopher Patten, Governor of Hong Kong.''   The term ''His Excellency'' should only be used when absolutely necessary.

  Your correspondent is right in saying that the ''Right Honourable'' is used by, among others, Cabinet Ministers and Privy Counsellors, but these two are, in a sense, synonymous because Cabinet Ministers are invariably members of the Privy Council.

  The Cabinet owes its origin to the Privy Council, of which it was ''an inner Council'' or committee.

  Mr Patten was made a Privy Counsellor in 1989: membership is for life, with the style of ''Right Honourable''.

  V. L. WARRINGTON Director of Protocol 



'Right Honourable' is correct