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
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
William BrookeFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
William James LewisFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
James McKerrowFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Thomas JonesFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
John MorganFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
James OddieFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
William EssonFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
William LassellFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow