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
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow