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 David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
James John DownesFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John PondFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
James GillFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
James PettitFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
John NewtonFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow