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
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Richard BestFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
John LeeFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
George HuntFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow