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
John HartnupFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
David AitkenFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
George DollondFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow