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 Vincent WalkerFellow
John WatsonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
James SimmsFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
Robert James MannFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
William TomlinsonFellow
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Albert MarthFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
William RoxburghFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
William GilesFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
John StanistreetFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
William FrancisFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
William SimmsFellow
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Robert GrantFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
William Samuel DownesFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Henry PerigalFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
John HippisleyFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
William BrookeFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow