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
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
William JohnstonFellow
John WatsonFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
William AndersonFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
James CavanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
William WillettFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
John James AubertinFellow
William HarnettFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
William BriggsFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Rev. James BaikieFellow
John DanskenFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow