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
Alan HunterFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
William James LewisFellow
James McKerrowFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
John RowbothamFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
George FrostFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
William FrostFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow