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. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Peter DoigFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow