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
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
John BrettFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
John LeeFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
William FrancisFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
George DollondFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
John MarshallFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow