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
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Arthur DallasFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Julius ScheinerAssociate
John WoodrowFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Henry EllisFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
James Henry YoungFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
James CavanFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
William WillettFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Walter HeathFellow
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
John William DurradFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Charles PendleburyFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Alfred WolferAssociate
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
William WilsonFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow