Who's Who (UK)
Who's Who, ISBN 0-713-662-751, is an annual British publication by A & C Black of very short biographies of about 30,000 famous and/or important Britons, published since 1849. Subjects are added by invitation, with entries normally written autobiographically, and only removed from the publication upon death of the subject. The 1897 edition's preface claimed that it covered those whose "prominence is inherited, or depending on office, or the result of ability which singles them out from their fellows". For the first two parts, biographies are adding for all holders of titles of Peerage, MPs, judges, and certain levels of civil servant are always included. For the third, and representing many of the entries, are added those from a wide range of fields whom have distinguished themselves, such as journalists, actors, lawyers, researchers, and artists. Every ten years a volume of Who Was Who is published, with the Who's Who entries for those who have died in the previous decade.
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