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
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
John MathesonFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
John PondFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
James PettitFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
John MitchellFellow