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
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Eugen von GothardFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
William ColemanFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
John HartnupFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
James GillFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
William Henry MawFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate