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
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
William ColemanFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
John ColesFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
George BishopFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow