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
Peter WillmoreFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Ann SavageFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
John BrowningFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
William ColemanFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Julien VertuFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow