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
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
William LaddFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow