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
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
James EppsFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Sir Harry KrotoHonorary Fellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
John WaltonFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John PondFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Francis James WardaleFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
William WilsonFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William LaddFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow