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
John Ellard GoreFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
George CalverFellow
James CampbellFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
John William DurradFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
John May WaldenFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
George CreaserFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
William James LewisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
John TebbuttFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
George ForbesFellow
Edward GayFellow
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate