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
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
William BrookeFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
George FrostFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Raymond HideFellow
William WillettFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow