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
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
John BastinFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
William ColemanFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
David CarterFellow
John JenkinsFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
John ColesFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow