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
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
John Russell HindFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
John FullerFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
William GilesFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow