When Dr David Owen was Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, people abroad thought that, for a change, there was a genuine intellectual in the British government.
A doctorate is the highest university degree.
But Dr Owen is actually a Doctor of Medicine-a fact which is clear to all British people, because only medical doctors put the title 'Doctor' in front of their name.
In the United States it is different. That illustrious Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger really is a Doctor of Philosophy! He got his Ph D at Harvard in 1954.
However, everyone refers to the author of the first English dictionary as Dr Johnson.
Johnson (1709-1784) was a Doctor of Letters, not Medicine. And he never used the title himself. But this didn't stop him saying:
'Life is a pill which no ne of us can bear to swallow without gilding.'
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