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
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
William SmalleyFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
William James LewisFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
William ColemanFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
David SmartFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
William WillettFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
William BowyerFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
John ColesFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow