OBITS: Oxonians (Updated Nov. 27, 2015)

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.

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

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

This list opened in March 2015. I'm working proactively on finding female Oxonians. They arrived in numbers so late and they have long lives.

If you have obits to suggest or a link to a good one already written, please email me - jtmarlin@post.harvard.edu. Oxford birthdays here.

2015 | Dan Topolski (New) | Sheila Kitzinger (St. Hugh's)

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

2014 | George Goodman, "Adam Smith" (BNC)
2013 | Denis Woodfield (Lincoln) | Peter Darrow (Trinity)
2011 | Christopher Hitchens (Balliol)
1991 | "Dr. Seuss" (Theodor Giesel, Lincoln)
1984 | Basil "Gaffer" Blackwell (Merton)
1973 | J.R.R. Tolkien (Exeter)
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)

1778 - William Pitt the Elder

1898 | Charles Dodgson, "Lewis Carroll" (Ch.Ch.)
1890 | John Henry Cardinal Newman (Trinity)
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)