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
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow