OBITS | By date of death

2015 - Dan Topolski (New College), Last
of the Great Amateur Rowing Coaches.

This is a list of obituaries I have written, or good ones that I have referenced, by year of death. The parenthetical references are to university affiliations, usually Oxford colleges, since this post originated as a list of Oxford obits.

2015 - Sheila Kitzinger (St. Hugh's)

I once had a half-time job at the Harvard News Office writing stories about my fellow students for their hometown newspapers.

Since then I never got out of the habit of hunting for highlights in the time people spend on earth.

If you have obits to suggest or a link to an interesting obit already published, please email me - jtmarlin[at]post[dot]harvard[dot]edu.

2015 | Dan Topolski (New) | Sheila Kitzinger (St. Hugh's) | Francis Fleetwood (MIT)
2014 | George Goodman, "Adam Smith" (BNC)
2013 | Denis Woodfield (Lincoln) | Peter Darrow (Trinity)
2006 | Frank Schiff (Columbia)

2014 - George "Jerry" Goodman
(BNC), a.k.a. "Adam Smith".

1984 | Basil "Gaffer" Blackwell (Merton)
1973 | J.R.R. Tolkien (Exeter)
1966 | Evelyn Waugh (Hertford)
1963 | C. S. Lewis (Univ.)
1956 | E. Clerihew Bentley (Merton)
1944 | Arthur Quiller-Couch, "Q" (Trinity)
1935 | T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) (Trinity)
1922 | James Viscount Bryce (Trinity)
1917 | Noel Godfrey Chavasse (Trinity)
1898 | Charles Dodgson, "Lewis Carroll" (Ch.Ch.)
1890 | John Henry Cardinal Newman (Trinity)

1778 - William Pitt the Elder

1792 | Frederick Lord North (Trinity)
1791 | John Wesley (Ch.Ch.)
1790 | Adam Smith (Balliol)
1788 | Charles Wesley (Ch.Ch.)
1785 | James Oglethorpe (Corpus), 1st Gov. of Georgia
1778 | William Pitt the Elder, Lord Chatham (Trinity)
1653 | Rev. Lawrence Washington (BNC), GW's gggrandfather
1675 | Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (Trinity)
1647 | Leonard Calvert (Trinity), 1st Gov. of Maryland
1632 | George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (Trinity)