Succession boxes in the guidelines

Succession boxes receive minimal coverage in Wikipedia's guideline structure. This is a list of the few mentions of succession boxes in the guidelines. If you find anything else that you think ought to be here, please add it to the list.

Guidelines

Guide to Layout – All succession boxes and navigational footers should go at the very end of the article, following the last appendix section, but preceding the "categories and interwiki links".
Manual of Style, writing about fiction – Another common type of template, succession boxes, should not be used to describe in-universe relationships in articles about fictional entities. Succession boxes assume continuity, which may not exist. Furthermore, they may invite the creation of non notable articles that fall under the fictional succession. For articles about works of fiction themselves, the story that each work of fiction depicts does not change despite the continuation of stories across serial works or sequels, and as a consequence, the events within one work of fiction are always in the present whenever it is read, watched, or listened to. In-universe temporal designations such as "current" or "previous" are therefore inappropriate. For character articles (which cannot be bound temporally), it may be acceptable to use customized templates to summarize information from the perspective of the real world, such as connections between articles describing the same fictional world. Such templates should not invite the creation of articles about non-notable subjects.

SBS checklist

Adoption of policy and/or creation of template for acting holders of offices
Finalisation of guidelines about dates (and relation to the Manual of Style)
- Decision on use of dashes in plain years (spaced or not)
- Standardisation of uncertain date-writing methods and abbreviations (ca., bef., etc.)
- Decision on close date ranges (in the same month or year)
Peerage
- Introduction of definite guidelines on the order of peerage headers
- Finalisation of guidelines for usage of "lords" label in peerages
- Finalisation of guidelines for usage of "creation" label in peerages
- Adoption of style guideline and/or creation of template for Writs of Acceleration
- Decision on use of peers' children's titles in predecessor/successor cells
Precedence
- Introduction of format for orders of precedence in the United Kingdom and the home nations
- Introduction of format for orders of precedence in the United States of America
Assemblies
- Introduction of format for Australian Members of Parliament
- Introduction of revised format for English and British Members of Parliament
- Adoption of guideline for United States House of Representatives Leaders
- Adoption of guideline for British House of Commons Whips and Leaders
- Introduction of format for seats in the United States Congress
- Resolution of the link problem for United States Representatives
Other political
- Evaluation of the character of shadow-cabinet members (political or party?)
Military
- Evaluation of the character of military offices
- Evaluation of the use of military prefixes in predecessor/successor cells
Other
- Formulation of provisions for succession boxes for royal houses, history of offices, box office records, music charts, actors in specific roles, electoral constituencies, evolution of states
- Final decision on the termination of the Canadian boxes' template incompatibility
- Resolution of the royal titles' header ambiguity
- Resolution of the unofficial titles' header classification ambiguity
- Introduction of definite guidelines on the order of succession lines under headers
- Adoption of guideline for office header transitions
- Evaluation of the use of the "Bt/Btss" post-nominal letters in predecessor/successor cells
Project affairs
- Decision on form of banner for usage in succession template talk pages
- Decision on the format of the "Offices" subpage and work towards its development
- Decision on the handling of navigation boxes and their relationship with succession boxes
- Actions for the recognition of succession boxes (and navboxes) in Wikipedia's guidelines
- Actions for the acquisition of guideline status for SBS's style conventions

Offices page draft

(Feel free to edit this draft, although if you think that major changes ought to be made, you should probably propose those in this page's talk page. Any comments are welcome and your input is important, given that this is intended to be the main directory of the titles and offices tracked by succession boxes.)

The following list of offices gives basic information about the titles tracked by succession boxes. Such information includes the years of the offices' existence and the categories to which they belong. Succession boxes are navigational tools that work as chains, each of which spans numerous articles; the purpose of this page is to help with the better organisation and standardisation of succession chains and to make the system's expansion and maintenance easier and more straightforward.

For a description of the way in which succession boxes ought to be used and details on their content and its format, see the SBS Guidelines page. For instructions on the creation of succession boxes and information about the internal code, please see their Documentation page. For a list of the succession templates in the scope of this project, see the Templates page.

Using the list

Although the page is called "Offices", its purpose is to list all the different titles, awards, trophies, records, championships, dynasties, peerages, and any other chains that are, or ought to be, tracked by succession boxes.

At first, the succession chains are classified into three major sections: offices, hereditary titles, and achievements, a categorisation scheme similar to that of the Guidelines page. Each section is broken up by country, and for each country a table exists, listing the chains.

The table for offices has eight columns:

Title – The name of the title
Original type – The type of the office at the time of its creation
Date of creation – The date from which the title started being used
Honorary since – The date at which the title became from substantial honorary, if any
Date of abolition – The date at which the title stopped being used, if any
Current/Last type – The type of the office now or, if abolished, at the time of its abolition
Category – The category of offices (within a type) to which the title belongs
Notes – Special status or limited usage of title, or other notes

The tables have a feature that enables one to automatically sort their items alphabetically by any column one wishes. One only has to click on the little box at the header of that column; clicking multiple times on the box will change the order from ascending to descending and back.

There are several abbreviations in the table. The most common is "ext.", which means extant and signifies that a title is still in existence. Others are: "c." (circa), "bef." (before), "aft." (after), "bet." (between), and "cent." (century). They are all used for dates. An m-dash (—) signifies that there is no date to be filled in a specific field, while a question mark (?) declares that a date is unknown.

Updating the list

This list is incomplete, and is unlikely to ever be completed. New titles will continue to be created or discovered, and titles for which there used to be no Wikipedia articles will acquire them in the future. And even without these concerns, the number of titles fulfilling the notability and successiveness criteria for having their own succession boxes is simply enormous, and their listing is no easy task, especially for the small number of people that comprise Succession Box Standardization.

For this reason, everyone's help is needed in order to keep this list as complete and up-to-date as possible. If you find a series of articles that is tracked by succession boxes but is not listed here, please enter it. If you locate an important enough title that forms a succession and many holders of which have or should have Wikipedia articles, then by all means insert it into the list; this way you ensure that the succession box for that series will eventually be created even if you do not do that yourself.

Creating a new line for a table is easy; all one needs to do is copy this line and fill in the new data:

| name || orig. type || date creat. || date hon. || date abol. || cur. type || category || notes

You should not forget to separate it from both the previous and the next line with a |-.

If you are certain about the dates of the title or any other subsidiary information you may freely enter it; if you are not sure, however, you may want to discuss it with us at our talk page. Any other question is welcome there as well. Any field in the table may be left empty except for the title field and the date of creation; since there has to be a creation date for every title, even if unknown, this field must always be filled, even if only with a question mark.

Offices

England/Great Britain/United Kingdom

Title	Original type	Date of creation	Honorary since	Date of abolition	Current/Last type	Category	Notes
Lord High Admiral	Military	c. 1400	1964	—	Political/military	Admiralty	Great Officer of State
First Sea Lord	Military	?			Political/military	Admiralty
Vice-Admiral of England	Military	?			Military	Admiralty	(GB, UK)
Rear-Admiral of England	Military	?			Military	Admiralty	(GB, UK)
Treasurer of the Navy	Military?	bef. 1546		1836	Military?	Admiralty
Lord High Constable of England	Military	1139	—	1521	Military	Army	Great Officer of State
Earl Marshal	Military	?		ext.	Military	Army	Great Officer of State
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces	Military	1672	—	1904	Military	Army
Paymaster of the Forces	Military?	bef. 1661	—	1836	Military?	Army
Lord Chancellor	Political	?	—	ext.	Political	Chancery and Seals	Great Officer of State
Lord Privy Seal	Political	?		ext.	Political	Chancery and Seals	Great Officer of State
Attorney General for England and Wales	Legal	?		ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Solicitor General for England and Wales	Legal	?		ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales	Legal	1880	—	ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench	Legal	1268	—	1880	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas	Legal	bef. 1217	—	1880	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer	Legal	?	—	1880	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Justice in Eyre	Legal	1217	—	1846	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Judge Advocate General of the Forces	Legal	bef. 1666	—	ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Prime Minister	Political	1780s		ext.	Political	Minister
Secretary of State	Political	16th century		c.1660	Political	Minister	two posts
Secretary of State for the Northern Department	Political	c.1660		1780s	Political	Minister
Secretary of State for the Southern Department	Political	c.1660		1780s	Political	Minister
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Political	1780s		ext.	Political	Minister
Secretary of State for Home Affairs	Political	1780s		ext.	Political	Minister
Master-General of the Ordnance	Military	?			Military	Ordnance
Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance	Military			1855	Military	Ordnance
Clerk of the Ordnance	Military	?		1857	Military	Ordnance
Clerk of the Deliveries of the Ordnance	Military	?		1830	Military	Ordnance
Storekeeper of the Ordnance	Military	?		1855	Military	Ordnance
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance	Military	?		1888	Military	Ordnance
Treasurer of the Ordnance	Military	?		1836	Military	Ordnance
Secretary to the Master-General of the Ordnance	Military?	?			Military?	Ordnance
Master Gunner of England	Military	?			Military	Ordnance
Master Gunner, St James's Park	Military	1678		ext.	Military	Ordnance
Lord President of the Council	Political	?	—	ext.	Political	Other	Great Officer of State
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	Political	1361	—	ext.	Political	Other
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports	Political	c. 1150		ext.	Honorary	Other
Lord Warden of the Stannaries	Political	1197		ext.	Honorary	Other
Master of the Mint	Political	?		?	Political?	Other (?)
Lord High Steward	Political?	1186		1421	Political?	Royal Household	Great Officer of State
Lord Great Chamberlain	Political?	?		ext.	Political?	Royal Household	Great Officer of State
Lord Steward of the Household	Political	bef. 1502		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Lord Chamberlain	Political	bef. 1485	—	ext.	Political	Royal Household
Master of the Household	Political	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Cofferer of the Household	Political	bef. 1603		1782	Political	Royal Household
Comptroller of the Household	Political	bef. 1487	—	ext.	Political	Royal Household
Treasurer of the Household	Political	bef. 1492	—	ext.	Political	Royal Household
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	Political	bef. 1536	—	ext.	Political	Royal Household
Master of the Horse	Political	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Treasurer of the Chamber	Political	1485		1782	Political	Royal Household
Paymaster of Pensions	Political	1703		1782	Political	Royal Household
Master of the Revels	Political	bef. 1461		1786	Political	Royal Household
Lord High Treasurer	Political	1216	—	ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer	Great Officer of State
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Political	bef. 1559	—	ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer
Secretary to the Treasury	Political	bef. 1559	—	ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	Political	?	—	ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer
Chief Secretary to the Treasury	Political	1961	—	ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer
Economic Secretary to the Treasury	Political	1947		ext.	Political	Treasury and Exchequer
Auditor of the Imprests	Political	?	by 18th century	1780s	Political	Treasury and Exchequer	two posts
Teller of the Exchequer	Political	?			Political	Treasury and Exchequer

Scotland

Title	Original type	Date of creation	Honorary since	Date of abolition	Current/Last type	Category	Notes
Lord High Admiral of Scotland	Political?	?		1707	Political	Admiralty	Officer of the Crown
Lord Privy Seal	Political	?			Political	Admiralty??
Lord High Constable of Scotland	Political?	?		ext.	Political	Army	Officer of the Crown, Great Officer of the Royal Household
Earl Marischal	Political?	1010		1715	Political	Army	Officer of the Crown
Knight Marischal	Political?	1633			Political	Army	Officer of the Crown
Lord Chancellor of Scotland	Political	?	—	1707	Political	Chancery and Seals
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland	Political	?		ext.	Political	Chancery and Seals	Officer of State
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland	Political	?			Political	Chancery and Seals	Officer of State
Lord Advocate	Legal	?			Legal	Judiciary and Law	Officer of State
Advocate General for Scotland	Legal	?			Legal	Judiciary and Law
Solicitor General for Scotland	Legal	?			Legal	Judiciary and Law
Lord President of the Court of Session	Legal	?		ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law
Lord Justice Clerk	Legal	?			Legal	Judiciary and Law	Officer of State
Lord Clerk Register	Legal?	bef. 1531	1806	ext.	Legal	Judiciary and Law	Officer of State
Lord Justice General	Legal	?		1836	Legal	Judiciary and Law	Officer of State, Great Officer of the Royal Household
Master of Requests	Legal?	?		1707	Legal	Judiciary and Law
High Steward of Scotland	Political	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
The Great Chamberlain	Political	c. 1124			Political	Royal Household	Officer of the Crown
Master of the Household in Scotland	Political	?			Political	Royal Household	Great Officer of the Royal Household
Keeper of Holyroodhouse	Political	?			Political	Royal Household	Great Officer of the Royal Household
Armour-Bearer	Political	?			Political	Royal Household	Great Officer of the Royal Household
Bearer of the Royal Banner	Political	1324			Political	Royal Household	Great Officer of the Royal Household
Bearer of the National Flag of Scotland	Political	?			Political	Royal Household	Great Officer of the Royal Household
Master of the Revels in Scotland	Political	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Master Carver	Political	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Captain-General of the Royal Company of Archers	Political?	?		ext.	Political	Royal Household
Treasurer of Scotland	Political	?		1707	Political	Treasury

Ireland

Title	Original type	Date of creation	Date of abolition	Current/Last type	Category
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland	Political	?	1921	Political	Government
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland	Judicial	?		Legal	Judiciary and Law
Attorney General for Ireland	Judicial	?		Legal	Judiciary and Law
Solicitor General for Ireland	Judicial	?		Legal	Judiciary and Law

France

Title	Original type	Date of creation	Honorary since	Date of abolition	Current/Last type	Category
Grand Master of France	Political	bef. 1300		1818	Political	?
Grand Chamberlain of France	Political	bef. 1310		1809	Political	?
Grand Chamberman of France	Political	bef. 1016	–	1545	Political	?
Grand Falconer of France	Political	c. 1250		1817	Political	?
Great Huntsman of France	Political	1413			Political	?
Grand Master of Artillery	Military	?	c. 1700		Military	?
Grand Master of Ceremonies	Political	1585		1792	Political	?
Grand Master of Crossbowmen	Military	?			Military	?
Grand Panetier	Political	?		1782	Political	?
Grand Squire of France	Political	bef. 1526			Political	?

Hereditary titles

England/Great Britain/United Kingdom

Title	Original type	Date of creation	Honorary since	Date of abolition	Current/Last type	Category	Notes
Monarch of England (as King or Queen)	Regnal	c. 878	—	1707	Regnal	Royal Household	Vacant from 1649 to 1660 (Interregnum)
Monarch of Great Britain (as King or Queen)	Regnal	1707	—	1801	Regnal	Royal Household
Monarch of the United Kingdom (as King or Queen)	Regnal	1801	—	—	Regnal	Royal Household

Distinctions

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