Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Charles Stevens	01-12-1918	10-02-1899	Fellow
John Robinson McClean	13-07-1873	08-01-1858	Fellow
Thomas Wilson Wormell	03-01-1985	13-07-1945	Fellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles Otter	26-03-1876	11-11-1842	Fellow
George Pearson	07-08-1928	13-02-1925	Fellow
Reginald James Harman	17-09-1963	12-01-1962	Junior Member
John Robinson Airey	16-09-1937	12-06-1931	Fellow
Charles Stewart	06-09-1897	10-11-1865	Fellow
Dr John Bostock	06-08-1846	10-11-1820	Fellow
John Walton	03-01-1863	13-06-1845	Fellow
Lady Mary Thomazine Lockyer	09-09-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskey	22-04-1979	13-05-1966	Fellow
Henry Mann	20-08-1879	12-05-1871	Fellow
Thomas Cushing	22-10-1913	10-01-1879	Fellow
Sir Harry Kroto	13-05-2016	11-02-2005	Honorary Fellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcus	09-01-1982	11-12-1959	Fellow
Rev. John Edwards	30-01-1876	12-11-1869	Fellow
Spencer Lavington Fletcher	11-11-1920	08-11-1901	Fellow
Rev. William Robinson Gilby	23-02-1848	10-01-1834	Fellow
Edward Roberts	04-08-1933	09-02-1872	Fellow
Bt Cyril C. Graham	09-05-1895	12-11-1858	Fellow
Joseph Hough	14-11-1924	12-12-1873	Fellow
Francis Barrow	13-09-1888	11-11-1870	Fellow
Francis James Wardale	14-03-1942	13-01-1888	Fellow
Edward Weldon	06-02-1932	12-02-1897	Fellow
James McDowell	17-03-1885	10-01-1862	Fellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward Murphy	09-08-1836	12-04-1833	Fellow
Capt. Ernest William Owens	14-08-1915	08-05-1903	Fellow
Alexander Foote	06-06-1917	11-05-1900	Fellow
Henry Reginald Fry	27-07-1950	11-04-1919	Fellow
Col. Charles Ratcliff	28-08-1885	08-05-1874	Fellow
Richard Frind Roberts	13-06-1917	12-01-1906	Fellow
Charles Hope Harris	26-06-1915	14-01-1910	Fellow
Rev. Frederick Silver	28-08-1884	11-05-1855	Fellow
William Bradshaw Housman	17-01-1955	12-11-1937	Fellow
George Innes	03-05-1929	11-01-1907	Fellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-Stoate	10-03-1934	08-04-1932	Fellow
Richard Kerr	19-05-1915	09-01-1903	Fellow
Daniel Alberto Valencio	25-05-1987	08-02-1985	Associate