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
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William GilesFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
William BowyerFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow