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
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
James GillFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Horace PearceFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
James Edward KeelerAssociate
John James AubertinFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
John Penn HartreeFellow
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
John BrettFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
William HarnettFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
William Irving PageFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
William FrancisFellow
William AndersonFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Capt. William NobleFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Edward CrossleyFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
John DanskenFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow