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
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
George InnesFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
John EvershedFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
James John DownesFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
David SmithFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
James NangleFellow
James GillFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
David MossFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
John James MellorFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow