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
Richard JohnsonFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Julius PageFellow
James HartnessFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
John JacksonFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
William Irving PageFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Henry MawFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow