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
Richard BestFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
John LaverFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Jacob WernerFellow