Portal:Obituaries

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Obituaries

Class CT Main/Index sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, definition. A listing of obituaries marking the death of notable persons, these are typically articles published in larger collective works.

17th Century

• Epitaph of M. Pascal, Pere

18th Century

• Bence Jones, from the 1773 The Chemical News
• Robert Lowth, from the 1787 The Gentleman's Magazine
• Adam Smith, from the 1790 The Times

19th Century

1801-1879

• William Charles Wells, from the 1817 The Gentleman's Magazine
• Charles Macfaull, Editor of Perth Gazette, from the 1846 Perth Gazette
• William Carey, from the 1848 Bengal Obituary
• Hannah Marshman, from the 1848 Bengal Obituary
• Edgar Allan Poe, from the 1849 New York Tribune
• Major-General Sir Richard William Howard-Vyse, from 1853 The Gentleman's Magazine
• Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, from 1863 Illustrated London News
• In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray 1863, by Charles Dickens
• Death of Jem Mason, 1866 from The Sporting Life
• George Housman Thomas, from 1868 The Times
• George Housman Thomas, from 1868 The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 225, June - November 1868)
• Harriet Anne, 13th Baroness Zouche, from 1870 The Times
• “Charles Dickens” in The Times (1870)
• “Ashurst Turner Gilbert, Bishop of Chichester” in The Times (1870)
• Charles Babbage, from 1871 The Times
• “Alexander Cornewall Duff-Gordon” in The Times (1872)
• Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche, from 1873 The Times
• Justus Liebig, from the 1873 The Chemical News
• Keith Edward Abbott, from the 1874 Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London
• Colonel C.H. Morrison, from the 1876 Ouachita Telegraph
• Kirkman Daniel Hodgson,late member for Bristol, from 1879 The Times

1880-1899

• Charles Robert Darwin, from the 1882 Transactions & Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh
• Biography of George Storrs, from the 1883 The Granite Monthly, a New Hampshire Magazine
• William Drew Robeson I, from the 1883 Princeton Press
• Edward Backhouse Eastwick, distinguished oriental scholar, from the 1883 London Times
• Mr. Octavian Blewitt, from the 1883 London Times
• Gregory Helmersen, from the 1885 New York Times
• Queen Emma, from the 1885 New York Times
• Mr. Robert Hunt F.R.S., from the 1887 London Times
• Balfour Stewart, 1887 Royal Society
• Charles Darwin, from the 1888 Proceedings of the Royal Society
• Edwin Cowles, from the 1890 New York Times
• Dr. John J. Crane, from the 1890 New York Times
• Obituary: Mr. Westland Marston, from 1890 London Times
• Count Napoléon Daru, from the 1890 New York Times
• Mr. George T. Bettany, from 1891 London Times
• Mr. Alexander Charles Ewald, from 1891 London Times
• Rev. Henry Richards Luard, Registrary of the University of Cambridge, from 1891 London Times
• Alfred Goodwin, from the 1892 London Times
• Edmond Fremy, from the 1894 New York Times
• Wyatt Papworth, from the 1894 London Times
• Mrs. Andrew Crosse, née Berkeley, from 1895 London Times
• William John Fitzpatrick, from 1895 London Times
• John J. Gorman, from the 1895 New York Times
• James Kelly, from the 1895 New York Times
• John Parsons Earwaker, from 1895 London Times
• Mr. George Paul Macdonell, from 1895 London Times
• General Richard Updyke Sherman, from the 1895 New York Times
• Rev. Edmund Venables, precenter and canon residentiary of Lincoln, from 1895 London Times
• Richard Avenarius from 1896 The Psychological Review
• James Dixon, F.R.C.S., from the 1896 London Times
• Mr. Frederick Brooksbank Garnett, from the 1896 London Times
• Adalbert Krueger, from the 1896 Astronomical Journal
• Adalbert Krueger, from the 1896 Astrophysical Journal
• M. Henri van Laun, from the 1896 London Times
• Robert Harrison, Librarian of the London Library, from the 1897 London Times
• Obituary: Rev. William Garden Blaikie, from the 1899 London Times
• Mr. Charles Henry Coote, from the 1899 London Times
• Alexander Balloch Grosart, from the 1899 London Times
• “Dabney Herndon Maury,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 27, 1899

20th century

1900 – 1909

• The Rev. Henry Furneaux, from the 1900 London Times
• Colonel William Raymond Lluellyn, from the 1900 London Times
• Mr. George Smith, from the 1901 Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement Volume I
• Kate Austin, from the 1902 Winn's Firebrand
• Mr. Arthur Cates, from the 1901 London Times
• Mr. Charles Kent, man of letters, from the 1902 London Times
• Canon Macdonnell, from the 1902 London Times
• Dr. George Birkbeck Norman Hill, from the 1903 London Times
• Mr. Thompson Cooper, from the 1904 London Times
• Dr. Thomas Fowler, President of Corpus Christi, Oxford, from the 1904 London Times
• Rev. Dr. Henry Palin Gurney, from the 1904 London Times
• Colonel William W. Knollys, from the 1904 London Times
• Mr. Norman MacColl, from the 1904 London Times
• Professor George Bond Howes, from the 1905 London Times
• Professor Lionel Smith Beale, from the 1906 London Times
• Miss Ellen Mary Clerke, from the 1906 London Times
• Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, from the 1906 London Times
• Mr. George Jacob Holyoake, from the 1906 London Times
• Mr. John Goldworth Alger, from the 1907 London Times
• Miss Agnes Mary Clerke, from the 1907 London Times
• Mr. J. A. Doyle, from the 1907 London Times
• Sir William Tennant Gairdner, from the 1907 London Times
• Archdeacon Samuel Cheetham, from the 1908 London Times
• Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid, from the 1908 London Times
• Miss Mary Cruger, 1908 obituary in the New York Times[1]
• James John Hornby, Provost of Eton, from the 1909 London Times
• Mr. Edward Henry Marshall, from the 1909 London Times
• Professor William Richard Morfill, from the 1909 London Times
• Mr. George Barnett Smith, from the 1909 London Times

1910 – 1919

• Mr. Arthur John Butler, from the 1910 London Times
• Frederick George Edwards, from the 1910 The Musical Times
• Alfred Henry Huth, from the 1910 London Times
• Leo Tolstoy, from the 1910 New York Times
• Canon J. A. Atkinson and the Rev. C. C. Atkinson, D.D., from the 1911 London Times
• Algernon Sidney Bicknell, from the 1911 London Times
• Mr. James Tait Black, from the 1911 London Times
• Edith Coleridge, from the 1911 London Times
• Mr. Æneas Mackay, from the 1911 London Times
• Calbraith Perry Rodgers, from the 1912 Chatanooga Times
• Mr. J. B. Atlay, from 1912 London Times
• Canon Henry Leigh Bennett, from 1912 London Times
• George Knottesford Fortescue, from 1912 London Times
• Dr. James Gairdner, C.B., from 1912 London Times
• Sir Frank Marzials, from 1912 London Times
• Dr. William Edward Armytage Axon, from 1913 London Times
• Isaac Saunders Leadam, from 1913 London Times
• Ross Winn, from the 1912 The Anarchist
• Dr. Patrick Weston Joyce, LL.D., Trinity College, Dublin, from 1914 London Times
• Canon Augustus Jessopp, from 1914 London Times
• Professor John Wesley Hales, from 1914 London Times
• Sir Arthur Herbert Church, Royal Academy Professor of Chemistry, from 1915 London Times
• Mr. Henry George Keene, C.I.E., from 1915 London Times
• Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope, thirty-five years' work for India, from 1915 London Times
• Death of Mr. R. Lydekker, Naturalist and Geologist, from 1915 London Times
• Death of Mr. Llewelyn Davies, Scholar and Liberal Churchman, from 1916 London Times
• Obituary: Professor John Ferguson, from 1916 London Times
• Dr. William Henry Fremantle, from 1916 London Times
• Obituary: Rev. William Dunn Macray, from 1916 London Times
• Colonel R. H. Vetch, C.B., from 1916 London Times
• The Rev. J. Cox Edghill. D.D., from the 1917 London Times
• Thomas Edward Kebbel, from the 1917 London Times
• Dr. James Bass Mullinger, from the 1917 London Times
• Colonel H. M. Vibart, from the 1917 London Times
• John Donohoe FitzGerald, from 1918 London Times
• Canon Scott Holland. Oxford Professor And London Preacher, from 1918 London Times
• Mr. Charles Francis Keary, a novelist, from 1917 London Times
• Death Of Sir Walter Armstrong. Art Critic And Writer, from 1918 London Times
• William John Hardy, F.S.A., from 1919 London Times

1920 – 1929

• Miss Elizabeth Lee, from 1920 London Times
• George Clinch, from 1921 London Times
• Rev. Ronald Bayne, from 1922 London Times
• Professor George Simonds Boulger, from 1922 London Times
• W. H. R. Rivers, from 1922 Journal of the Polynesian Society
• Death of Sir Edward Carter Kersey Gonner, from 1922 London Times
• Robert Edmund Graves, from 1922 London Times
• Colonel Ernest Marsh Lloyd, from 1922 London Times
• Death of Canon Johnston, biographer of Pusey and Liddon, from 1923 London Times
• Captain Harold Lyon Thomson, from 1924 London Times
• William Westropp Brereton, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• James Britten, from 1924 London Times
• Professor Marcus Hartog, from 1924 London Times
• Robert Guthrie Poole Lansdown, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• John McCaw, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• Campbell William De Morgan, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• Mr. Gerald Patrick Moriarty, from 1924 London Times
• John William King Mullen, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• Alexander Charles O'Sullivan, from 1924 British Medical Journal
• Death of George Somes Layard, from 1925 London Times
• Lady Agnes Macdonell, from 1925 London Times
• Professor Frederick William Gamble, from 1926 London Times
• Sir Erskine Holland, a great international jurist, from 1926 London Times
• The Rev. Right Hon. Dr. Thomas Hamilton, Queen's College, from 1926 London Times
• Mr. Holcombe Ingleby, from 1926 London Times
• Mr. George Farewell Jones, from the 1926 London Times
• Sir Sidney Lee, from 1926 London Times
• Everard Green, Somerset Herald, from 1926 London Times
• Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, from 1926 London Times
• Mr. Alfred Trice Martin, from 1926 London Times
• Mr. Philip Henry Bagenal, from 1927 London Times
• Mr. Arthur Aikin Brodribb, from 1927 London Times
• Sir Sidney Colvin, art critic and friend of Stevenson, from 1927 London Times
• Sir John Keltie, a pioneer of modern geography, from 1927 London Times
• Dr. Alexander Hastie Millar, from 1927 London Times
• Edward Lee Warner, from 1927 London Times
• Obituary: Mr. Osmund Airy, from 1928 London Times
• James Edmund Harting, from 1928 London Times
• Thomas Macgregor Greer, from 1928 London Times
• Mr. George Vere Benson, from 1929 London Times

1930 onwards

• Mr. Mackenzie Bell, from the 1930 London Times
• Sir John. R. Findlay, Public Services to Scotland, from the 1930 London Times
• Sir Israel Gollancz, Early And Middle English, from the 1930 London Times
• Harry Reginald Holland Hall, M.B.E., Archaeologist And Historian, from the 1930 London Times
• The Very Rev William Holden Hutton, The Dean of Winchester, scholar and preacher, from the 1930 London Times
• Sir Henry Knollys, K.C.V.O., from the 1930 London Times
• Lady Margaret Verney, from the 1930 London Times
• Professor Charles Harold Herford, from the 1931 London Times
• Professor William Hewins, from the 1931 London Times
• Mr. W. G. Black, from the 1932 London Times
• Sir Sidney Low, Journalist And Author, from the 1932 London Times
• Sidney Oldall Addy, from the 1933 London Times
• Mr. Robin Legge, Music Critic For 40 Years, from the 1933 London Times
• David Hannay, Naval Historian and Writer, from the 1934 London Times
• Henry Jenner, from the 1934 London Times
• Lady Lydia Miller Middleton, from the 1934 London Times
• “Augustus Frederick Montalba” in The Times (1938)
• Mr. A. I. Dasent, Nephew and Biographer of Delane, from the 1939 London Times
• Sir T. Hudson Beare, from the 1940 London Times
• Sir Arthur Harden, Nobel laureate, biochemist, from the 1940 London Times
• Henry Higgs, Economist and Civil Servant, from the 1940 London Times
• Dr. Alfred Cort Haddon, from the 1940 London Times
• Dr. William John Lawrence, Theatrical Historian, from the 1940 London Times
• Dr. Henry Forster Morley, from the 1943 London Times
• Dr. Hubert Hall, Public Record Office, from the 1944 London Times
• Rev. Dr. James Mackinnon, from the 1945 London Times
• Sir Frank Heath, Science and Industry, from the 1946 London Times
• Sir Philip Joseph Hartog, from the 1947 London Times
• Mohandas K. Gandhi, from the 1948 London Times
• John Alexander Herbert, from the 1948 London Times
• Germaine Casey, 2007 remarks by US President George W. Bush

Eulogies

• George W. Bush's Eulogy for Ronald Reagan
• George W. Bush's Eulogy for Gerald Ford