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
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
John James HallFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Henri MineurFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
George William SeriesFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
William ScottFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow