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
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Heather CouperFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
William BowyerFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
George FrostFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Albert MarthFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
John WatsonFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
William FrostFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow