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
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
George FrostFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
William FrostFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Raymond HideFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow