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
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Daniel HogarthFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
James CookFellow
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
John GriggFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Eric DoolittleFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
George BrufordFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Charles Alfred PostFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
William BarnettFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Fritz CohnAssociate
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Walter William BryantFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
William Henry FinlayFellow