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. Daniel DuttonFellow
William FrancisFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
William ScottFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Peter GrayFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
William BowyerFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
James SimmsFellow
Arthur BailyFellow