Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
William Francis	18-01-1904	13-06-1851	Fellow
Edward Riddle	31-03-1854	12-04-1822	Fellow
Thomas Edward Heath	03-01-1918	09-03-1906	Fellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. John	21-09-1854	13-06-1851	Fellow
Alfred Holness	08-10-1926	11-01-1918	Fellow
Thomas Humphries	30-08-1928	11-03-1921	Fellow
Thomas Edward Knightley	04-09-1905	13-03-1896	Fellow
Bishop John Brinkley	14-09-1835	10-11-1820	Fellow
Arnold Buxton	15-02-1949	10-02-1922	Fellow
Pietro Caturegli	13-04-1833	12-03-1830	Associate
Richard Edward Synge Cooper	04-05-1937	12-06-1891	Fellow
Rev. Peter David Morse	12-06-1917	10-03-1916	Fellow
Rev. Robert Prichard Davies	31-12-1904	12-03-1869	Fellow
George James Newbegin	04-04-1919	13-04-1888	Fellow
Rev. Daniel Dutton	26-08-1931	12-01-1877	Fellow
Kennet Pollock	27-09-1968	14-11-1924	Fellow
Henry Bedingfield Goodwin	24-02-1927	14-02-1919	Fellow
Roberto Rossi	17-03-1919	10-01-1913	Fellow
Henry Burdett Hederstedt	29-04-1915	08-02-1878	Fellow
Frank Hope-Jones	03-04-1950	14-11-1924	Fellow
Joseph Gurney Barclay	25-04-1898	14-12-1855	Fellow
William Arthur Smith	11-04-1914	12-02-1897	Fellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport Becher	15-02-1876	12-11-1830	Fellow
Daniel Buckney	27-07-1927	13-05-1904	Fellow
William Henry Walmsley	16-04-1916	12-01-1883	Fellow
Arthur Stanley Williams	21-11-1938	09-05-1884	Fellow
Jack Gordon Miller	15-06-1958	09-01-1953	Fellow
Lieut. George Beaver Croucher	16-04-1918	08-01-1915	Fellow
Sir Robert Pearce	29-09-1922	12-01-1877	Fellow
George James Gibbs	22-02-1947	12-01-1912	Fellow
Capt. John Grover	06-11-1847	12-02-1836	Fellow
Donald William Horner	28-02-1944	14-02-1913	Fellow
William Benjamin Hutchinson	20-04-1898	13-01-1888	Fellow
Edward Williams Snell	07-07-1891	10-03-1871	Fellow
Capt. Pringle Stokes	12-08-1828	13-01-1826	Fellow
Thomas Keig	13-04-1896	08-02-1889	Fellow
Rev. Michael Ward	08-12-1841	29-02-1820	Fellow
Sir William Cubitt	13-10-1861	14-05-1824	Fellow
Jack Meadows	18-07-2016