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
Allan R. SandageFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
James CavanFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
David AitkenFellow
David SmithFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Edward HughesFellow