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
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Alan S RodgerFellow
Bernard PagelFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
John MorganFellow
James OddieFellow
Charles MasonFellow
John LaverFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William ColemanFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Heather CouperFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow