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
Michael William OvendenFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
David HughesFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
James John DownesFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
James GillFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
William WillettFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
John RiddleFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Edward HughesFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow