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
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
John BrettFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
George FrostFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Francis BailyFellow