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
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Julien VertuFellow
George HuntFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
John James AubertinFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
David SmithFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William LaddFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Jack Meadows
Thomas KingFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
John NarrienFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow