How do you address a deceased person?

Use 'the late' before a name of someone who is deceased – often recently – when one wants to be respectful. For example, on a wedding program: —-John Smith, the bride's uncle, will give away the bride in place of her father the late Thomas Smith.

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How to Write a Deceased Person’s Name on a Certificate?

How do I write the name of our local general practitioner who has died – on a Certificate of Appreciation to be presented to his family? Do I write ‘The Late John Smith, M.D.’? Thanks.

———–– Sue in Essex County

Dear Sue:

You don’t need note that he is dead. Just put his name on the certificate. Names of the deceased are presented as just the name – no honorific before – no academic post nominals after. When they were alive they were Mr., Mrs., doctor, judge, ambassador, professor, senator, general, or captain. Ranks and honorifics are only used with the names of the living. The idea is – while alive the person had many versions of their name – but now those are in the past. (1) As a pretense at historic homes they often refer to the famous former occupant as if they are still alive. At Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, the guides refer to Thomas Jefferson as Mr. Jefferson throughout the tour as if he is alive. It’s charming, It’s theatrical. But not the formal form. (2) George Washington is now just George Washington. He is no longer general, he’s no longer a government official. A historian might write ‘General Washington issued an order …’ in text so the reader knows by what authority the action was taken. But reference to a person in a book is not a form of address. It is a reference in the third person so the reader can know who-is-who and what-is-what.

Back to your certificate. Use wording like this:

—-—-In Appreciation of

——–John Smith

——–For Exemplary Service to the Citizens of Essex County

—-The certificate can be signed & dated at the bottom:

—-—-Robert Thompson, Mayor

—-—-The Twenty Third Day of June, Two Thousand Twenty

Since the service was specific to the practice of medicine then including ‘M.D.’ after the name can be argued. I would vote you include no academic post nominal. That he was a physician you can work into the statement about ‘the why’ behind the certificate. If the certificate is dated as I suggested above … historians will figure out that this certificate was presented posthumously.

– Robert Hickey How to Write the Names of Deceased Persons

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