SIR – You refer to Robin Walker’s father, an earlier MP for Worcester, as “Lord Peter Walker” (Worcester News, April 18).

I’m afraid it is never correct to put a peer’s first name after “Lord”.

He was both “Peter Walker” and “Lord Walker”, but “Lord Peter” is impossible.

That style is not for actual peers, who have themselves either earned or inherited a peerage, but is used only by the younger sons of dukes and marquesses; for example, Lord Nicholas Windsor, younger son of the Duke of Kent.

In other words by men who are not themselves actually peers.

Lord Walker might not feel flattered to be confused with some junior member of an idle aristocracy, when he himself earned, and was awarded, a peerage in his own right.

P C THOMPSON

Worcester