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
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
William FrancisFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
John BrittainFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
James GillFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
George Parker BidderFellow