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
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
James GlaisherFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Peter GrayFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow