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
Robert GrantFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
John MorganFellow
James LeighFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
George KnottFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
James CampbellFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George WallFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
John Russell HindFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Sir John PenderFellow
George HuntFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Frederick BrodieFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Sidney WatersFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Charles StewartFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
John William AldridgeFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George WilliamsFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Herbert SadlerFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
John MarshallFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John NewtonFellow