British biographical archive

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

DA 28 .O95 v. Main
Absolutely the most up to date and scholarly biographical dictionary of the famous deceased British and Irish.  Supplement also in Main DA 28 .O95  

AHRnet Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects

Contains biographical, bibliographical and Internet data on architects born or working in Ireland, Wales and Scotland during years   Also has information on architectural firms and online and print sources.

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Archive of biographies of members of the Royal Society, content older than one year, accessible free on the internet.  The Royal Society first began publishing short obituaries of its fellows in in its Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.  From fuller memoirs of nearly every deceased fellow and foreign members have been in their Obituaries () and then in their Biographical Memoirs from onwards.

Clergy of the Church o