Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Violet Florence White	15-09-1946	09-05-1930	Fellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert Lee	12-03-1920	14-06-1907	Fellow
John Robinson McClean	13-07-1873	08-01-1858	Fellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles Otter	26-03-1876	11-11-1842	Fellow
George Pearson	07-08-1928	13-02-1925	Fellow
Capt. John Steele	19-04-1904	13-02-1880	Fellow
Reginald James Harman	17-09-1963	12-01-1962	Junior Member
Rev. Thomas Robert Terry	03-05-1913	11-03-1881	Fellow
John Robinson Airey	16-09-1937	12-06-1931	Fellow
Dr John Bostock	06-08-1846	10-11-1820	Fellow
Lady Mary Thomazine Lockyer	09-09-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskey	22-04-1979	13-05-1966	Fellow
Henry Mann	20-08-1879	12-05-1871	Fellow
Thomas Cushing	22-10-1913	10-01-1879	Fellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcus	09-01-1982	11-12-1959	Fellow
Rev. John Edwards	30-01-1876	12-11-1869	Fellow
Herbert Sadler	01-06-1898	12-11-1876	Fellow
Spencer Lavington Fletcher	11-11-1920	08-11-1901	Fellow
James Lidderdale Scott	16-04-1908	09-01-1891	Fellow
Anne Sheepshanks	08-02-1876	14-02-1862	Honorary Fellow
Rev. William Robinson Gilby	23-02-1848	10-01-1834	Fellow
David Smith	23-12-1885	13-06-1862	Fellow
Edward Roberts	04-08-1933	09-02-1872	Fellow
Bt Cyril C. Graham	09-05-1895	12-11-1858	Fellow
John May Walden	16-01-1887	11-02-1876	Fellow
Joseph Hough	14-11-1924	12-12-1873	Fellow
Francis Barrow	13-09-1888	11-11-1870	Fellow
James McDowell	17-03-1885	10-01-1862	Fellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward Murphy	09-08-1836	12-04-1833	Fellow
Capt. Ernest William Owens	14-08-1915	08-05-1903	Fellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. John	21-09-1854	13-06-1851	Fellow
Alexander Foote	06-06-1917	11-05-1900	Fellow
Henry Reginald Fry	27-07-1950	11-04-1919	Fellow
Col. Charles Ratcliff	28-08-1885	08-05-1874	Fellow
Richard Frind Roberts	13-06-1917	12-01-1906	Fellow
Charles Hope Harris	26-06-1915	14-01-1910	Fellow
William Bradshaw Housman	17-01-1955	12-11-1937	Fellow
George Innes	03-05-1929	11-01-1907	Fellow
Richard Kerr	19-05-1915	09-01-1903	Fellow