“ Airy was a great student of history, especially of the Stuart and Restoration periods, and was the author of a number of historical works, besides his contributions to the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography. St. Andrews gave him its LL.D. in 1899. He was married in 1873 to Emily Josephine, daughter of the late Canon Miller, D.D. She survives him with one son and three daughters. ”