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
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William MannFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Henry MannFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
John BrettFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
William GodwardFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
George WallFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Henry PrattFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Edward GayFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
George ForbesFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
William James LewisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
George CreaserFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow