Adverb
by title vested in yourself or by virtue of qualifications that you have achieved
Source: WordNetIf it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others. Charlaine Harris
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. Susan Holloway Scott
a peer in his own right Source: Internet
a leading sports figure in his own right Source: Internet
a fine opera in its own right Source: Internet
she's a rich woman in her own right rather than by inheritance Source: Internet