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
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
James John DownesFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow