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In Britain, it's a very old fashioned title for a man. ESQ is an abbreviation of 'Esquire', which means that a person such as Thomas Smith, Esq is of the upper classes of society. This basically applies to a segment of society known as the 'landed gentry', so families where large amounts of land are passed on through the generations - the born rich, rather than the nouveau riche. In America, some lawyers choose to use that as a professional title, though I'm not sure why!

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