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
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Charles MayFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
William GravattFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow