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
Richard AbbattFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
William JohnstonFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
William WilsonFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
William ColemanFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
William CotterellFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow