Obituaries

About the Database of Obituaries

This database lists obituaries of Fellows, Associates and Honorary Members of the RAS from the 1820s onwards. The obituaries were published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), Memoirs of the RAS, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society (QJRAS) and Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G). Links to obituaries published elsewhere are also provided where possible (for an explanatory list of abbreviated journal titles, see here). This listing of the historical membership of the Royal Astronomical Society was originally compiled by Anthony J. Kinder, and digitised in 2008 by Ian Ridpath.

This resource has made use of the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

NameBornDiedElectedMembership status
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow