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 David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
William CotterellFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
William ScottFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
James BreenFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
James GillFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
George ForbesFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
William James LewisFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
James McKerrowFellow
David SmithFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow