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. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William SmalleyFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
William ScottFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William LaddFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
John NarrienFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow