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
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
David AitkenFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow