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
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
William LethbridgeFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
James John DownesFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
John BastinFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow