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
Michael William OvendenFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Charles MayFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
William AndersonFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
James SimmsFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow