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
James PettitFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
William AllenFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
George BrufordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
John FullerFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow