Wikidata:Property proposal/Beamish peerages database person ID

Beamish peerages database person ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: Beamish peerage database person ID (P10849) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Database of peerages in the United Kingdom
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (Q335260) → 2784
Example 2	Margaret Thatcher (Q7416) → 2656
Example 3	Mary Anne Disraeli (Q6778938) → 302
Source	https://peerages.historyofparliamentonline.org/
Planned use	Will be loaded into mix-and-match
Number of IDs in source	3182 (likely to increase)
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://peerages.historyofparliamentonline.org/people/$1
See also	Rush Parliamentary Archive ID (P4471)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Beamish peerages database (Q112619617)

Motivation

This is a newly released database from the History of Parliament Trust, which focuses on peerages but also indexes all initial holders of peerages (barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, dukes) created in the United Kingdom since about the middle of the seventeenth century. (See seperate proposal at Wikidata:Property proposal/Beamish peerages database ID for the peerage titles themselves.)

While the database is currently incomplete (it doesn't have most later holders of titles) it is still potentially very useful for indexing; peers were historically major political figures in the UK, but most of the databases focus on MPs. Peers are covered in Hansard (1803–2005) ID (P2015), but in a way that is quite difficult to work with.

As with the earlier Rush Parliamentary Archive ID (P4471) from the same team, items can be backlinked to Wikidata and I expect that we will be able to get that in place once matching is underway. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:16, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]