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
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Joseph KleiberFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
David SmartFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Arthur KennedyFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
John DanskenFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Walter William BryantFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
William BriggsFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
John EvershedFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow