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
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
John Russell HindFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
John LaverFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow