7 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 5

I have read with interest a notice in the Scotsman

that " the Rev. Countess Mayo, D.D.," is " resuming " on the subject of Truth in Action in the present week in a hall in Edinburgh. More light on this would be welcome. Women are not com- monly Doctors of Divinity, though it occasionally happens (as for example, in the case of Dr. Maude Royden). The wife of the Earl of Mayo was credited with no such distinction when the current issue of Who's Who was compiled, but she may, of course, have acquired it since. Nor was there then any sug- gestion of ordination. Is the " Countess " by any chance a Christian name, as with Earl Browder or Lord John Sanger ?