Portal:Obituaries
Appearance
A listing of obituaries marking the death of notable persons, these are typically articles published in larger collective works.
17th Century
[edit]18th Century
[edit]- 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
[edit]1801–1879
[edit]- 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
- Obituary:William Wing (1855), Natural History Review
- 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," in The Times (1868)
- George Housman Thomas, from 1868 The Gentleman's Magazine (volume 225, June - November 1868)
- "Harriet Anne, 13th Baroness Zouche," in The Times (1870)
- "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," in The Times (1873)
- 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," in The Times (1879)
1880–1899
[edit]- 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," in The Times (1883)
- "Mr. Octavian Blewitt," in The Times (1884)
- Gregory Helmersen, from the 1885 New York Times
- Queen Emma, from the 1885 New York Times
- "Mr. Robert Hunt F.R.S.," in The Times (1887)
- "The late Very Rev. Canon O'Rourke, P.P., V.F., Maynooth" in Freeman's Journal, 1887
- 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," in The Times (1890)
- Count Napoléon Daru, from the 1890 New York Times
- "Mr. George T. Bettany," in The Times (1891)
- "Mr. Alexander Charles Ewald," in The Times (1891)
- "Rev. Henry Richards Luard, Registrary of the University of Cambridge," in The Times (1891)
- "Alfred Goodwin," in The Times (1892)
- "John Cashel Hoey," in The Times (1892)
- Edmond Fremy, from the 1894 New York Times
- "Wyatt Papworth," in The Times (1894)
- "Mrs. Andrew Crosse, née Berkeley," in The Times (1895)
- "William John Fitzpatrick," in The Times (1895)
- John J. Gorman, from the 1895 New York Times
- James Kelly, from the 1895 New York Times
- "John Parsons Earwaker," in The Times (1895)
- "Mr. George Paul Macdonell," in The Times (1895)
- General Richard Updyke Sherman, from the 1895 New York Times
- "Rev. Edmund Venables, precenter and canon residentiary of Lincoln," in The Times (1895)
- Richard Avenarius from 1896 The Psychological Review
- Gilbert William Child, from the 1896 British Medical Journal
- "James Dixon, F.R.C.S.," in The Times (1896)
- "Mr. Frederick Brooksbank Garnett," in The Times (1896)
- Adalbert Krueger, from the 1896 Astronomical Journal
- Adalbert Krueger, from the 1896 Astrophysical Journal
- "M. Henri van Laun," in The Times (1896)
- "Robert Harrison, Librarian of the London Library," in The Times (1897)
- "Obituary: Rev. William Garden Blaikie," in The Times (1899)
- "Mr. Charles Henry Coote," in The Times (1899)
- "Alexander Balloch Grosart," in The Times (1899)
- “Dabney Herndon Maury,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 27, 1899
20th century
[edit]1900–1909
[edit]- "The Rev. Henry Furneaux," in The Times (1900)
- "Colonel William Raymond Lluellyn," in The Times (1900)
- Mr. George Smith, from the 1901 Dictionary of National Biography, Supplement Volume I
- Kate Austin, from the 1902 Winn's Firebrand
- "Mr. Arthur Cates," in The Times (1901)
- "Mr. Charles Kent, man of letters," in The Times (1902)
- "Canon Macdonnell," in The Times (1902)
- "Dr. George Birkbeck Norman Hill," in The Times (1903)
- "Mr. Thompson Cooper," in The Times (1904)
- "Dr. Thomas Fowler, President of Corpus Christi, Oxford," in The Times (1904)
- "Rev. Dr. Henry Palin Gurney," in The Times (1904)
- "Colonel William W. Knollys," in The Times (1904)
- "Mr. Norman MacColl," in The Times (1904)
- "Professor George Bond Howes," in The Times (1905)
- “Carl Schurz 1829-1906,” by William Dean Howells, from the May 26, 1906, Harper's Weekly
- “Carl Schurz, Pilot,” by Mark Twain, from the May 26, 1906, Harper's Weekly
- "Professor Lionel Smith Beale," in The Times (1906)
- "Miss Ellen Mary Clerke," in The Times (1906)
- "Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff," in The Times (1906)
- "Mr. George Jacob Holyoake," in The Times (1906)
- "Mr. John Goldworth Alger," in The Times (1907)
- "Miss Agnes Mary Clerke," in The Times (1907)
- "Mr. J. A. Doyle," in The Times (1907)
- "Sir William Tennant Gairdner," in The Times (1907)
- "Archdeacon Samuel Cheetham," in The Times (1908)
- "Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid," in The Times (1908)
- Miss Mary Cruger, 1908 obituary in the New York Times[1]
- "James John Hornby, Provost of Eton," in The Times (1909)
- "Mr. Edward Henry Marshall," in The Times (1909)
- "Professor William Richard Morfill," in The Times (1909)
- "Mr. George Barnett Smith," in The Times (1909)
1910–1919
[edit]- Elizabeth Blackwell, from the 1910 British Medical Journal
- "Mr. Arthur John Butler," in The Times (1910)
- Frederick George Edwards, from the 1910 The Musical Times
- "Alfred Henry Huth," in The Times (1910)
- Leo Tolstoy, from the 1910 New York Times
- "Canon J. A. Atkinson and the Rev. C. C. Atkinson, D.D.," in The Times (1911)
- "Algernon Sidney Bicknell," in The Times (1911)
- "Mr. James Tait Black," in The Times (1911)
- "Edith Coleridge," in The Times (1911)
- "Mr. Æneas Mackay," in The Times (1911)
- Calbraith Perry Rodgers, from the 1912 Chatanooga Times
- "Mr. J. B. Atlay," in The Times (1912)
- "Canon Henry Leigh Bennett," in The Times (1912)
- "George Knottesford Fortescue," in The Times (1912)
- "Dr. James Gairdner, C.B.," in The Times (1912)
- "Sir Frank Marzials," in The Times (1912)
- "Alone in Death" in The Diocesan Messenger, 1st July, 1912 (about Bartoš Bittner)
- "Dr. William Edward Armytage Axon," in The Times (1913)
- "Isaac Saunders Leadam," in The Times (1913)
- Ross Winn, from the 1912 The Anarchist
- "Dr. Patrick Weston Joyce, LL.D., Trinity College, Dublin," in The Times (1914)
- "Canon Augustus Jessopp," in The Times (1914)
- "Professor John Wesley Hales," in The Times (1914)
- Obituary of M. Christophe Edouard Mauss (1914)
- "Sir Arthur Herbert Church, Royal Academy Professor of Chemistry," in The Times (1915)
- Reminiscences of Gopal Krishna Gokhale in The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 2/Chapter 31 (1915)
- "Mr. Henry George Keene, C.I.E.," in The Times (1915)
- "Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope, thirty-five years' work for India," in The Times (1915)
- "Death of Mr. R. Lydekker, Naturalist and Geologist," in The Times (1915)
- "Death of Mr. Llewelyn Davies, Scholar and Liberal Churchman," in The Times (1916)
- "Obituary: Professor John Ferguson," in The Times (1916)
- "Dr. William Henry Fremantle," in The Times (1916)
- "Obituary: Rev. William Dunn Macray," in The Times (1916)
- "Colonel R. H. Vetch, C.B.," in The Times (1916)
- "Joseph Satran" in The Wilson World, vol. 40, no. 14 (1916)
- "John Siman dead" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (2) (1917)
- "A Little Bit of History" by in The Bohemian Review, 1 (5) (1917)
- "The Rev. J. Cox Edghill. D.D.," in The Times (1917)
- "Thomas Edward Kebbel," in The Times (1917)
- "Dr. James Bass Mullinger," in The Times (1917)
- The Rev. William Henry Thornton, from the 1916-1917 Devon and Cornwall Notes & Queries
- "Colonel H. M. Vibart," in The Times (1917)
- "John Donohoe FitzGerald," in The Times (1918)
- "Canon Scott Holland. Oxford Professor And London Preacher," in The Times (1918)
- "Mr. Charles Francis Keary, a novelist," in The Times (1917)
- "Death Of Sir Walter Armstrong. Art Critic And Writer," in The Times (1918)
- "William John Hardy, F.S.A.," in The Times (1919)
- "General Štefanik" in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (5) (1919)
1920–1929
[edit]- "Miss Elizabeth Lee," in The Times (1920)
- "George Clinch," in The Times (1921)
- "Obituary: Francis S. J. Swehla" in The Wilson World (1921)
- "Rev. Ronald Bayne," in The Times (1922)
- "Professor George Simonds Boulger," in The Times (1922)
- W. H. R. Rivers, from 1922 Journal of the Polynesian Society
- "Death of Sir Edward Carter Kersey Gonner," in The Times (1922)
- "Robert Edmund Graves," in The Times (1922)
- "Colonel Ernest Marsh Lloyd," in The Times (1922)
- "Mrs. Mekota dies in City", in Iowa City press-Citizen (1922)
- "Death of Canon Johnston, biographer of Pusey and Liddon," in The Times (1923)
- "Captain Harold Lyon Thomson," in The Times (1924)
- Czechoslovakia's tribute to the memory of Woodrow Wilson (1924)
- William Westropp Brereton, from 1924 British Medical Journal
- "James Britten," in The Times (1924)
- "Professor Marcus Hartog," in The Times (1924)
- 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," in The Times (1924)
- John William King Mullen, from 1924 British Medical Journal
- Alexander Charles O'Sullivan, from 1924 British Medical Journal
- "Death of George Somes Layard," in The Times (1925)
- "Lady Agnes Macdonell," in The Times (1925)
- "Professor Frederick William Gamble," in The Times (1926)
- "Sir Erskine Holland, a great international jurist," in The Times (1926)
- "The Rev. Right Hon. Dr. Thomas Hamilton, Queen's College," in The Times (1926)
- "Mr. Holcombe Ingleby," in The Times (1926)
- "Mr. George Farewell Jones," in The Times (1926)
- "Sir Sidney Lee," in The Times (1926)
- "Everard Green, Somerset Herald," in The Times (1926)
- "Charles Lethbridge Kingsford," in The Times (1926)
- "Mr. Alfred Trice Martin," in The Times (1926)
- "Mr. Philip Henry Bagenal," in The Times (1927)
- "Mr. Arthur Aikin Brodribb," in The Times (1927)
- "Sir Sidney Colvin, art critic and friend of Stevenson," in The Times (1927)
- "Sir John Keltie, a pioneer of modern geography," in The Times (1927)
- "Dr. Alexander Hastie Millar," in The Times (1927)
- "Edward Lee Warner," in The Times (1927)
- "Obituary: Mr. Osmund Airy," in The Times (1928)
- "James Edmund Harting," in The Times (1928)
- "Thomas Macgregor Greer," in The Times (1928)
- "Mr. George Vere Benson," in The Times (1929)
- "Silent messenger summons Anton Odvarka, sr." in The Colfax County Press and the Clarkson Herald Consolidated, 3rd October, 1929
1930–1939
[edit]- "Mr. Mackenzie Bell," in The Times (1930)
- "Sir John. R. Findlay, Public Services to Scotland," in The Times (1930)
- "Sir Israel Gollancz, Early And Middle English," in The Times (1930)
- "Harry Reginald Holland Hall, M.B.E., Archaeologist And Historian," in The Times (1930)
- "The Very Rev William Holden Hutton, The Dean of Winchester, scholar and preacher," in The Times (1930)
- "Sir Henry Knollys, K.C.V.O.," in The Times (1930)
- "Lady Margaret Verney," in The Times (1930)
- "Professor Charles Harold Herford," in The Times (1931)
- "Professor William Hewins," in The Times (1931)
- "J. B. Sindelar joins the silent majority" in The Colfax County Press and the Clarkson Herald Consolidated, 12th February, 1931
- "Joseph B. Sindelar" by in The Schuyler Sun, 19th February, 1931
- "Mr. W. G. Black," in The Times (1932)
- "Sir Sidney Low, Journalist And Author," in The Times (1932)
- "Funeral rites for Frank Cejda" in West Point Republican, 28th April, 1932
- "Frank Cejda is laid to rest" in The Howells Journal, 29th April, 1932
- "Sidney Oldall Addy," in The Times (1933)
- "Mr. Robin Legge, Music Critic For 40 Years," in The Times (1933)
- "David Hannay, Naval Historian and Writer," in The Times (1934)
- "Henry Jenner," in The Times (1934)
- "Lady Lydia Miller Middleton," in The Times (1934)
- "Death comes quickly to Emil Folda; last rites are tomorrow" in The Howells Journal, 1st November, 1935
- "Emil Folda" in The Schuyler Sun, 7th November, 1935
- "Mrs P. F. Svoboda, member of a pioneer Colfax County Family, passed away on Thursday of last week" in The Schuyler Sun, 16th January, 1936
- "Frederick James Matheson," in The Times (1936)
- "Professor Bohumil Shimek, Noted S. U. I. Botanist, Passes At 75," in Iowa City Press-Citizen (1937)
- "Professor Shimek, Botany Authority, Dies in Iowa City", in The Daily Times (1937)
- "Bohumil Shimek–46 Years at Iowa City," in The Des Moines Register (1937)
- "Fr. Anthony Folta Dies Saturday in Omaha Hospital" in The Dodge Criterion, 23rd September, 1937
- "Father Anthony Folta" in The Schuyler Sun, 23rd September, 1937
- "Services held for Father Folta at church at Dodge" in Fremont Tribune, 24th September, 1937
- "Augustus Frederick Montalba," in The Times (1938)
- "Mr. A. I. Dasent, Nephew and Biographer of Delane," in The Times (1939)
1940–1949
[edit]- "Sir T. Hudson Beare," in The Times (1940)
- "Sir Arthur Harden, Nobel laureate, biochemist," in The Times (1940)
- "Henry Higgs, Economist and Civil Servant," in The Times (1940)
- "Dr. Alfred Cort Haddon," in The Times (1940)
- "Dr. William John Lawrence, Theatrical Historian," in The Times (1940)
- "Dr. Henry Forster Morley," in The Times (1943)
- "Joseph Sudik" in The Schuyler Sun, 7th January, 1943
- "Dr. Hubert Hall, Public Record Office," in The Times (1944)
- "Rev. Dr. James Mackinnon," in The Times (1945)
- "Funeral Rites for Joseph M. Mundil Held Last Saturday" by in The Schuyler Sun, 20th December, 1945
- "Sir Frank Heath, Science and Industry," in The Times (1946)
- "Sir Philip Joseph Hartog," in The Times (1947)
- "Mohandas K. Gandhi," in The Times (1948)
- "John Alexander Herbert," in The Times (1948)
1950 onwards
[edit]- "Rev. Filipi gone-but not forgotten" in The Colfax County Press and the Clarkson Herald Consolidated, 29th October, 1952
- "Father Petlach dies at 81 years" in The Colfax County Press and the Clarkson Herald Consolidated, 7th June, 1953
- "Mrs. Joseph B. Makousky" in Colfax County Call, 19th May, 1955
- "Howells Pastor Passes Away Suddenly Monday" in The Dodge Criterion, 23rd October, 1958 (about rev. Joseph J. Vitko)
- "Mr Frank Cadogen Cowper has died at the age of 81.", in The Times (1958)
- "Rafael De Szalatnay, 79", in The Record (1963)
- "Rev. Drbal rites in Howells Tuesday" in The Schuyler Sun, 7th December, 1963
- "Former legislator Otto Kotouc dies", in Beatrice Daily Sun (1973)
- "Private Rites Held For Otto Kotouc Sr.", in The Lincoln Star (1973)
- "Libbie Scholten", in The Missoulian (1979)
- "Sparkill artist Vytlacil exerted wide influence" in The Journal News, 12th January, 1984
- Germaine Casey, 2007 remarks by US President George W. Bush