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
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John ColesFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
John MorganFellow
James OddieFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
George WilliamsFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
George FrostFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
John BrowningFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
James BreenFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow