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
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
John Russell HindFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
William GilesFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
John BrowningFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William ColemanFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
James BreenFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
David BaxandallFellow