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
Edwin StoryFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Richard BestFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
George FrostFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
William FrostFellow
Walter MossFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow