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Strong Keep: firstly, a knighthood is not the "lowest rank of honour", but it constitutes a fairly selective and prestigious type of state honour above a large number of other awards at companion, officer or member grade (e.g. the CBE, OBE and MBE). There are about 20 knights bachelor appointed in the twice-yearly honours lists out of a UK population of over 60 million people, and for that reason knighthoods are typically held to meet
WP:ANYBIO#1. Aside from that, I've added further sources where he is the subject – two articles in The Times (one entirely about him and the other substantially so), plus discussion of his work in one of
Andrew Marr's books; there is more still out there, according to Google searches, but I think this clearly passes notability threshold now. His entry in the UK version of Who's Who, which is selective, published by Oxford University Press and not a vanity publication, is further evidence of this (IMO very clear) notability. —
Noswall59 (
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09:33, 20 November 2019 (UTC).reply
Keep. All knights are notable per
WP:ANYBIO. We have always held that anyone who holds a CBE or above satisfies those criteria. If the nominator thinks a knighthood is the lowest rank in the honours system they clearly know absolutely nothing about the British honours system. --
Necrothesp (
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14:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)reply
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