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
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
John RowbothamFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
William BrookeFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
John William DurradFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
George William SeriesFellow