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
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Andy BreenFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Julien VertuFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
George FrostFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow