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
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
James HartnessFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
James RankinFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
William CaryFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Francis BailyFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
George KnottFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow