Esq

abbreviation

Esquire.

1. a polite title appended to a man's name when no other title is used, typically in the address of a letter or other documents.

   J. C. Pearson Esquire

2. a young nobleman who, in training for knighthood, acted as an attendant to a knight.

late Middle English: from Old French esquier, from Latin scutarius ‘shield-bearer’, from scutum ‘shield’; compare with squire. esquire (sense 2 of the noun) was the original denotation, esquire (sense 1 of the noun) being at first a courtesy title given to such a person.