User:Necrothesp/British biography notability

A few of my own thoughts on notability criteria for inclusion of biographical articles on British people.


 * Royalty and peerage
 * Monarchs and their spouses.
 * Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, great-nephews and -nieces, and first cousins of monarchs, as well as their spouses.
 * Peers.
 * Heirs to a peerage.
 * Honours
 * Baronets.
 * Knights and dames.
 * Recipients of one of the following honours: OM, CH, CB, CSI, CMG, CIE, CVO, CBE.
 * Members of the Privy Council or the Privy Council in Ireland.
 * Decorations for bravery
 * Recipients of the Victoria Cross, George Cross, Empire Gallantry Medal, Edward Medal or Albert Medal.
 * Anybody who was awarded the George Medal or Queen's Gallantry Medal for an action during peacetime (much less common and better reported than awards in wartime).
 * Anybody who was awarded the Queen's Police Medal (or its predecessors), Queen's Fire Services Medal (or its predecessors) or British Empire Medal for gallantry for an action during peacetime.
 * Anybody who was awarded two or more of the higher awards for gallantry (DSO, CGC, DCM, CGM, GM), including bars to an award.
 * Anybody who was awarded a total of three or more gallantry awards which carry post-nominal letters (including bars).
 * Anybody who received their decoration for a particularly unusual or interesting action.
 * Politics and government
 * Members of Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
 * Permanent secretaries of government departments (and their equivalents).
 * Chief executives of government agencies and other NGOs.
 * Clerks of the Parliaments and the House of Commons.
 * Directly elected mayors.
 * Leaders and chairmen of county, county borough and unitary authority councils.
 * Members of the London Assembly.
 * Chief executives of county, county borough and unitary authority councils (including their predecessors: clerks and town clerks).
 * Ambassadors and Ministers of the Diplomatic Service.
 * Heads of MI5, MI6, GCHQ and their predecessors.
 * Armed Forces
 * Officers who reached the rank of at least Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy, Major-General in the British Army or Royal Marines, or Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force.
 * Officers who were instrumental in carrying out particularly significant operations.
 * Officers who established or commanded particularly significant units.
 * Police
 * Officers who reached Chief Officer rank (Chief Constable, Deputy Chief Constable, Assistant Chief Constable, Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Commander, Deputy Commander) in any modern British police force except for small specilist forces.
 * Officers who reached Chief Officer rank in any county or county borough police force.
 * Officers who established or commanded particularly significant units (e.g. Special Branch, Flying Squad).
 * Officers who headed major investigations or operations which were reported on national news.
 * Officers who were murdered while on duty (a very rare occurence in Britain).
 * Law
 * Lords Justices of Appeal.
 * High Court Judges (and their predecessors, such as Barons of the Exchequer).
 * Scottish Lords of Council and Session.
 * Actors
 * Actors who have had billing in a feature film, major television film or series.
 * Actors who have had a recurring and significant role in a long-running television or radio serial or series.
 * Actors who have had billing in a theatre production in the West End or a major provincial theatre.
 * Actors who have been awarded the OBE or MBE.
 * Crime
 * Murderers who killed more than one person.
 * Murderers and other criminals whose crimes were significantly covered in the media, especially those whose crimes regularly appear in "true crime" books (e.g. unusual motive or method, first or innovative use of a forensic or other investigative technique, landmark legal case, major manhunt, prominent victim, unusual defence, etc).
 * Murder victims whose names are better-known than those of their killers (especially if the crime was never solved).
 * Academics
 * Vice-Chancellors or other heads of universities or polytechnics.
 * Holders of named chairs at universities.
 * External references
 * Anybody who has an article in the Dictionary of National Biography.