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
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
David MossFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
James SimmsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow