MARQUESS of TULLIBARDINEasked the Lord Advocate under what authority the Secretary for Scotland recently advised or instructed the Lord Lyon King of Arms to refuse to decide a question of precedence between the Royal College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; and whether the Secretary for Scotland has any jurisdiction, direct or indirect, over the Lyon King of Arms as such?
§ Mr. UREQuestions of precedence are, in the view of the Secretary for Scotland, exclusively for the Sovereign to decide. The jurisdiction of the Lyon King is exclusively statutory, and does not embrace questions of precedence. And the Lyon King having invited an expression of opinion on the question referred to by the Noble Lord, received an answer on the lines above indicated.