Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.

If one person is the holder of the Victoria Cross then that person is considered the superior, irrespective of rank.

The RSM-A is the only holder of the unique rank of Warrant Officer ( WO ), introduced in 1991.

The Swedish military rank of fänrik ( and the corresponding cavalry rank of kornet ) was originally intended for the holder of the company flag.

Each successive rank gave its holder greater pensions and legal privileges.

In Scotland, the rank of baron is a rank of the ancient feudal nobility of Scotland and refers to a holder of a feudal barony, formerly a feudal superiority over a proper territorial entity erected into a free barony by a Crown Charter, and is not usually considered a rank of Peerage ; as such it can be transferred by either inheritance or conveyance.

Wittmann rose to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer ( captain ) and was a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross holder.

If a holder is promoted to a higher rank, the lower rank's insignia must be returned.

India's ace archer Deepika Kumari, gold medal winner of Commonwealth Games 2010 and current world no. 1 rank holder, also hails from Ranchi.

On 10 October 1831, by a 324 against 26 vote of the Chamber of Deputies, hereditary peerage was abolished, but peerage for the life of the holder continued to exist until the chamber and rank were definitively abolished in 1848.

A holder of the junior 3rd court rank ( jusanmi ), Yorifusa held the title of chūnagon ( middle counselor ), both of which he received in 1627.

A holder of the 2nd court rank, junior grade ( ju-ni-i ), he had the title of dainagon ( major counselor ).

If the Degree of Master of Biochemistry or Chemistry or Computer Science or Earth Sciences or Engineering or Mathematics or Mathematics and Computer Science or Mathematics and Philosophy or Physics or Physics and Philosophy is held together with a higher degree, the holder will rank in precedence equally with a person who holds the same higher degree together with the Degree of Master of Arts.

Perhaps the best-known holder of the rank for Americans was Valeriano Weyler, Governor General of Cuba in 1896-97 during the period preceding the Spanish-American War.

Under the Nationalist regime of 1939-1975, the only holder of the rank of capitán general de la armada was the Caudillo, Generalísimo Francisco Franco.

From 1892 the holder sat in Cabinet and in 1926 the post was elevated to the rank of Principal Secretary of State and retitled Secretary of State for Scotland.

The holder of this rank and post represents the highest enlisted level of leadership in the Air Force, and as such, provides direction for the enlisted corps and represents their interests, as appropriate, to the American public, and to those in all levels of government.

The holder of this rank is the most senior enlisted member of the Army, unless an Army NCO is serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman, when in that case that NCO will be the most senior enlisted and the SMA will be the second-most senior enlisted member of the Army.

Additional knowledge about the territory and historic period is required to know whether the rank holder was a sovereign or non-sovereign.

However, joint precedence among rank holders often greatly depended on whether a rank holder was sovereign, whether of the same rank or not.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

Estêvão da Gama was appointed alcaide-mór ( civil governor ) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478, and continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region.

The first holder of the title was Bill Manhire who held the post of Poet Laureate from 1998 – 99.

In later years many administrative changes were made that increased the independence of the Director of Estates and Services, the Director of the Manchester Computing Centre, and eventually combined the offices of Registrar and Bursar as that of Registrar and Secretary, the last holder of this post being Eddie Newcomb ( 1995-2004 ).

The position was created again, but its holder died without heirs in 1421, and the post has since been left vacant.

The baccalaureate ceremony is held at the local Church of the Brethren, and the holder of the post of campus minister must be a member of the Church of the Brethren.

The current holder of the post is the theoretical physicist Michael Green who is currently a fellow in Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge.

The holder of the post for the 2011 – 12 season is Lera Auerbach.

The holder of the post originally served the monarch of England.

Duties are not clearly stated, though it is generally expected the holder of the post will write music to commemorate important royal events, such as coronations, birthdays, anniversaries, marriages and deaths, and to accompany other ceremonial occasions.

At that time the holder of the post took charge of the monarch's private band, a responsibility which continued until the band was dissolved in 1901.

In the modern era, the holder is by convention always a member of one of the houses of Parliament and the office is a Cabinet post.

The longest holder of the post was Dawn Primarolo, whose portfolio consisted of the workings of HM Revenue and Customs, formerly Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise, bureaucratically separate from the Treasury.

The current holder of the post is former Monaghan County Board Chairman Paraic Duffy who was appointed in 2008.

Unlike the office of First Minister, the post of Deputy is not recognised in statute and confers no extra status on the holder.

His first government post was as Minister for Europe, from 1979-83 ( being that office's inaugural holder ), and served in several Cabinet roles from 1984 onwards, including Secretary of State for Northern Ireland ( 1984 – 85 ), Home Secretary ( 1985 – 89 ) and Foreign Secretary ( 1989 – 95 ).

In 1978 Mehta became the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and remained there until his resignation in 1991, becoming the longest holder of the post.

Originally, the holder of the post was designated " Colonial Treasurer ", but this term was replaced with " Minister of Finance " shortly after New Zealand ceased to be a Colony and became a Dominion.

A holder of the post would be the third highest ranked Great Officer of State, below the Lord High Chancellor and above the Lord President of the Council.

He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia ( 1914 – 1920 ), and is considered as probably the most politically influential holder of this post.

He was a founder member, in 1835, and President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1863 – 5 ; he was the eleventh holder of that post but the first not to be a peer or baronet.

He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791.

The first holder of this post is the Reverend Dr. Fraser Watts, a psychologist and theologian.