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
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John PondFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
John TatlockFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
George FrostFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
John DanskenFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
William WillettFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
William FrostFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
James PettitFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow