"Esq" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an abbreviation of the title "Esquire" and is used to indicate someone holds a higher social rank than the average person. For example, "John Smith, Esq., is a well-known lawyer in the area."
I saw Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy last night and the film confirmed that Oldman's portrayal of Smiley is based on Coldstream: his glasses, his painting technique based on the ideas of watching he developed at the GPO Film Unit working alongside WH Auden, who wrote in his Letter to William Coldstream, Esq (1937): "Let me pretend I am the impersonal eye of the camera".
English translations of five of his plays, Die Hose (The Bloomers), Der Snob (The Snob), 1913, Das Fossil (The Fossil), and Bürger Schippel (performed and published 1913; translated as Paul Schippel, Esq.) appeared in Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Classes (1970).
Under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1938 to 1945, she displayed her acting skills in such films as H.M. Pulham, Esq.
English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847 48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England, and The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
The same year brought his Life of Richard Nash, of Bath, Esq.
She received a best supporting actress Academy Award nomination for her best-known role, the quick-with-a-quip photographer from Spy magazine in The Philadelphia Story (1940), and among her other notable films were H.M. Pulham, Esq.
(Loud cheers).Christopher Rawdon, Esq., most sincerely wished that he could add anything in the way of novelty or strength to the arguments adduced in favour of the cause which they were assembled to support, but as he could not do so, he would content himself with most cordially seconding the resolution.The Chairman then put the resolution, and declared it to be carried unanimously.
He was followed shortly afterwards by John Bright, Esq., M.P., who was welcomed with deafening applause.
A gentleman near the chair having said he thought he saw one hand held up against it, the Chairman put the question again, but the imaginary solitary dissentient did not appear in all the immense assemblage.John Bright, Esq., M.P., then rose, and his reception was most enthusiastic.
Not one was extended in opposition, and it was declared as passed unanimously.Richard Sheil, Esq., considered himself particularly fortunate in having to propose a resolution which needed no recommendation from him, and which only required to be read to ensure its adoption.
