Obituaries - my talk at Off Grid 2025

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Here are links to all the people I mentioned in the talk, including every obituary:

• Ann Wroe’s obituaries in The Economist

• Four more from The Economist (not mentioned in the talk but worth reading):

  • Harold Pinter

  • The Mars Rover

  • Bill Millin, the bagpiper at the D-Day landings

  • Benson the fish

  • Cédric Mauduit, civil servant killed in the Bataclan attacks

• Simon Mann obituary (The Economist)

• The third Lord Moynihan obituary (Daily Telegraph via Wayback Machine)

• Tina Turner obituary (The Economist)

• Matthew Perry obituary (The Economist)

• Basil D’Oliveira obituary (Daily Telegraph)

• David Lawrence obituary (Daily Telegraph)

• Julius Eastman obituary (Village Voice) ~ Julius Eastman (BBC Sounds) ~ More about Julius Eastman

• “The double obit of Alfred Brendel and Kim Woodburn”

• Harrison Birtwistle obituary (Morning Star)

• The History of Bad Ideas: the decisive battle Past Present Future podcast

• Lt Col John Pine-Coffin obituary (Daily Telegraph)

• Noreen Riols obituary (The Times)

• Martha Gellhorn’s obituary can be found in the book The Times: Great Women’s Lives (2014)

• Leo Marks obituary (Daily Telegraph) ~ Between Silk And Cyanide ~ My earlier post about Leo Marks

• Anne Wroe’s Reddit AMA

• Irmgard Furchner obituary (Daily Telegraph)

• Somerset Struben de Chair ~ Somerset Struben de Chair’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery

• Asil Nadir obituary (Financial Times)

• The history of British obituaries

• Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd obituary (The Guardian)

• The Economist on Hermann Abs and Lord Roll

• Harry de Quetteville on Daily Telegraph obits

• Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende

• The Halsingland Hotel

• The Dead Beat, Marilyn Johnson’s book about obituaries and obit writers

• Matthew Engel’s 2012 FT piece about Lunch with the FT, from which the Gavin Ewart story is taken ~ Gavin and Jane Ewart portrait in the National Portrait Gallery