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. James Collett EbdenFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
David AitkenFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
John WilliamsFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow