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 Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
William LassellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
William James LewisFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
William BrookeFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow