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Reverend, not a title of honour or dignity, and a person prefixing it to his name does not thereby claim to be in Holy Orders; see Keet v. Smith, (1875) 1 PD 73, in which case the incumbent of a parish having refused to allow a tombstone describing the deceased as a daughter of the 'Rev. H Keet, Wesleyan Minister,' to be erected in his churchyard, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, allowing an appeal, ordered a faculty to issue for the erection of the tombstone.