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 FullerFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
George ForbesFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
David AitkenFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Charles MasonFellow
William ColemanFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
John LaverFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
James KnightFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
William WillettFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow