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
Jan van der BiltFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles MasonFellow
James GillFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow