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
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Walter MossFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
John BrittainFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Thomas KingFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Selig BrodetskyFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Willem de SitterAssociate
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
George BrufordFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John MastinFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
James NangleFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
George InnesFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
John GriggFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
William OttwayFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow