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
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
William ScottFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
William BriggsFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
James HartnessFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow