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
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
John WatsonFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
William AndersonFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
James CavanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
William WillettFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
William BriggsFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
John DanskenFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow