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
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
William OttwayFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
John PondFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Jon DariusFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
James PettitFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow