Rosten's obituary in The Independent on February 21, 1997, written by Chaim Bermant, describes his personality as follows:

Hugh Wood briefly describes the hoax in this obituary.

An obituary describes him as cynical and self-deprecating, a boulevardier and a maverick.

A newspaper obituary describes him as having " retained his mental faculties till the last ".

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Hartmann's obituary of Kellner describes that in 1902 Kellner

He eschewed the avant-garde — his obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes him as having " never deserted tonality " and seeing " dozens of his former avant-garde colleagues returning to the fold "— though he did embrace aleatoric techniques later in his career.

In an obituary in the journal Radical Philosophy, Carolyn Steedman describes Samuel's work: Like Raymond Williams and Edward Thompson, he produced his historical work in interaction with working-class adult returners to education ... The standard charge against the history Samuel inspired was of a fanatical empiricism and a romantic merging of historians and their subjects in crowded narratives, in which each hard-won detail of working lives, wrenched from the cold indifference of posterity, is piled upon another, in a relentless rescue of the past.

His New York Times obituary, for example, describes the charges as " universally regarded as politically motivated ".

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

The papers had the same format: page 1 reported the party Central Committee session on 11 March that elected Gorbachev and printed the new leader's biography and a large photograph of him ; page 2 announced the demise of Chernenko and printed his obituary.

" Very few of us here in Oxford had any personal knowledge of him ," admitted one obituary in Oxford's staff magazine, " The Clarendonian ".

An affectionate obituary tribute in The Guardian commented, " He loved cricket ... and played it ardently and very badly ", while in a review of Cricket Country, George Orwell described him as " the true cricketer ":

The London Times obituary in 1962 described him as an " an angry young man of the generation before they became fashionable ", and who '" remained something of an angry old man to the end ".

His warmth tempered the sharpness of the writing ... To say that everyone loved him sounds like every obituary ever written – nonetheless it's true ... Horne was one of the few great men I have met, and his generosity of spirit and gesture have, in my experience, never been surpassed.

His obituary in the Sydney Gazette was unflattering, insisting that "... he was a thorough savage, not to be warped from the form and character that nature gave him ...", which reflected the feelings of some in Sydney's white society that Bennelong had abandoned his role as ambassador in his last years, and also reflects the deteriorating relations between the two groups as more and more land was cleared and fenced for farming, and the hardening attitudes of many colonists towards ' savages ' who were not willing to give up their country and become labourers and servants useful to the colonists.

Western reporters observed that Hu's obituary was intentionally " glowing " in order to divert suspicion that the Party had mistreated him.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, when discussing the death of William the Conqueror, denounced him and the conquest in verse form, but the king's obituary notice from William of Poitiers, a Frenchman, was laudatory and full of praise.

" Recorder, July 3, 1816 His obituary, printed in the Missouri Gazette, October 3, 1820, says, " At the age of eighty, in company with one white man and a black man, whom he laid under strict injunction to return him to his family dead or alive, he made a hunting trip to the headwaters of the Great Osage, where he was successful in trapping of beaver, and in taking other game.

According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in the Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father,

The Time obituary said of him:

' The Law Times, in his obituary, stated that Ballantine " left behind him scarcely any lesson, even in his own poor biography, which the rising generation could profitably learn.

His obituary in the New York Times said he " was attacked by Jews both to the right and the left of him ," for different reasons.

When Luis Buñuel died at age 83, his obituary in The New York Times called him " an iconoclast, moralist and revolutionary who was a leader of avant-garde surrealism in his youth and a dominant international movie director half a century later.

His obituary in The Guardian described him as " the dominant cartoonist of the western world ".

The New York Journal-American ran a front-page obituary on him.

The New York Journal-Americans obituary described him as a devoted husband and father, of slight build, mild-mannered and an anonymous contributor to charities for the needy.

In a 1999 obituary for Penelope Mortimer, The Guardian characterized Harold Pinter as someone who values what is " written between the lines ", making him " her ideal translator and interpreter " for the film adaptation of Mortimer's novel.

Upon the death of the original Smokey Bear, The Washington Post printed an obituary, recognizing him as a " New Mexico native " who had resided in Washington, D. C., for many years, working for the government.

His sharp tongue had already made him an enemy of Roebuck, and he disgusted the friends of Mill by the stories he raked up for an obituary notice of the great economist ( The Times, May 10, 1873 ).

There is also an obituary notice of him in the Proc.

In fact, his obituary in The Times took more interest in his athletic career, calling him " one of the best known Cambridge athletes of his day ".

His official obituary described him as " a great proletarian revolutionary, a statesman, a military strategist, a staunch Marxist, an outstanding leader of the party, the state, and the people's army.

The Times praised Backhaus in its 1969 obituary for having upheld the classical German music tradition of the Leipzig Conservatory.

According to an anonymous contemporary obituary in the Pall Mall Gazette, Legge was in his study every morning at three o ' clock, winter and summer, having retired to bed at ten.

In de Jaeger's 2000 obituary Ian Jacob, the then-Director-General of the BBC, was quoted as having said to Leonard Miall, Head of Television Talks 1954-61,

Praised in his Wisden obituary as having " a brilliant game that made him splendid to watch from the ringside ", MacLaren's 424 against Somerset in 1895 stood as a record high score for thirty years until overtaken by Don Bradman and Bill Ponsford.

A keen follower of cricket, Richmond was noted in one obituary as having been " an habitué of Lord's since 1816 "

Edna informed Juliette of these things after reading Kiesl's obituary in the New York Times, but Edda and Juliette unexpectedly met Kiesl, quite alive, when they traveled to Vienna to visit his grave, the obituary having identified the wrong person.

Gavin Gaughan wrote Braid's obituary in The Guardian, and in it he described Nana as " vague, but always affectionate " and having " a wide smile and good-natured manner, her niche as a maternal Cockney was in the screen tradition inaugurated by Kathleen Harrison, which included Irene Handl and Patricia Hayes.

The very real possibility that there are no direct descendants of Nathan B. Kelley is evidenced by the fact that his wife is mentioned as having resided with her brother Daniel Hufford for six years in his obituary dated 1891.

An unsigned obituary J. T. Carrington in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ( 1874, 11: 140 – 141 ) began ' More than twenty years too late for his scientific reputation, and after having done an amount of injury almost inconceivable in its immensity, Francis Walker has passed from among us ',

He is attributed with having killed over twenty people and was described in his obituary as a " noted freebooter who for many years has been an object of terror and hatred on the eastern frontier of Texas ".

Desborough had the unfortunate distinction of having his obituary erroneously published on 2 December 1920 in The Times which had confused him with Lord Bessborough.