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
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
George InnesFellow
William FrancisFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
George WallFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow