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
Frederick SlocumFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Heather CouperFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
William ColemanFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
John RamageFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
William LassellFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow