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
Richard AbbattFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
William BowyerFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
John BrowningFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
James EppsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
David SmithFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Jack Meadows
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Charles BartonFellow