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
Capt. William NobleFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Albert MarthFellow
William EllisFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
William CotterellFellow
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Isaac FletcherFellow
John WatsonFellow
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Richard MundayFellow
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
James BreenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
John Thomas BarberFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
John MarshallFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
John William AldridgeFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
James OddieFellow
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Sir William HugginsFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
William ColemanFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Herman SchultzAssociate
Richard DunkinFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
John Russell HindFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
James CampbellFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Charles MeldrumFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Edwin DunkinFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
George WallFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow