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
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
James John DownesFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Walter MossFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
John GlaisherFellow