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October 23

Colin Firth Honorary Degree

Colin Firth received an honorary degree from Winchester College in 2007. Have either of his siblings ever received any honorary degrees? 151.226.199.226 (talk) 04:53, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

I don't think that information is likely to be available anywhere, and nor for that matter is the answer to the question you asked a few threads above. Why are you so interested in Colin Firth's siblings, by the way? --Viennese Waltz 15:13, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Obviously, the IP wants to know if the family went firth and multiplied. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:30, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Just to piggy back on what VW has noted, Colin Firth is a Public figure, and the legal expectation of privacy for Public figures is different than private figures. The amount of publicly accessible information about Firth is quite large, given the number of interviews published with him, the desire of journalists to dig through public records to write biographies about him, etc. His siblings, however, are NOT public figures, so have a different expectation of privacy. Also, since they are NOT public figures, there isn't anyone doing research about their lives, they don't give interviews about themselves, etc. So the amount of readily available information about them is MUCH more sparse. For any non-public person (I.E. someone whose livelihood does not make them of interest to the public) then the default assumption is "no one knows". Such information may be available if you know how to do proper public records searches, but there's not likely to be any published accounts in places like newspapers or magazines or the like. --Jayron32 16:32, 23 October 2015 (UTC)