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
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Robert RawsonFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
William ColemanFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Harold SewardFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
John HartnupFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
James GillFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
William Henry MawFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
James OddieFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow