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
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
James McDowellFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
William ColemanFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
William HarnettFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
John EvershedFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
John DickinsonFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
John ColesFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
George Parker BidderFellow