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
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Alphonso KingFellow
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Thomas RobsonFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
William NewboldFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
William BowyerFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
William OttwayFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
John GriggFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
George InnesFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Warin Foster BushellFellow
James NangleFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
James Thomas JacksonFellow
James William GiffordFellow
John MastinFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow