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
Louis George MacroryFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
William Edgar GeilFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
John MastinFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Fritz CohnAssociate
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Walter George BellFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Alfred FowlerFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Georges LecointeAssociate
William Fraser DoakFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
William AndersonFellow
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Willem de SitterAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow