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
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
John GriffithsFellow
Albert MarthFellow
David MatraversFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
William BrookeFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
William EssonFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow