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
Maures HornerFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
William WilsonFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Robert KillipFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Alfred WolferAssociate
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
James Garton BowerFellow
John William DurradFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
William WillettFellow
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James CavanFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate