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
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
John WoodrowFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
James CavanFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
George DollondFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
John James MellorFellow