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
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William ColemanFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
David SmithFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Walter MossFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John ColesFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
George BishopFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow