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
Charles MayFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
George BrufordFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow