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. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
John BrittainFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow