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
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
James SimmsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
William BrookeFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
David AitkenFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow