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
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
John BrettFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John PondFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
James GillFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
James PettitFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow