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
John NewtonFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
David SmithFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
William EssonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Charles George TalmageFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Edward TyerFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Eduard LutherAssociate
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
William EllisFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
John BrowningFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
George WilliamsFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
John MathesonFellow
George HuntFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
James CarpenterFellow
John MorganFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
William LaddFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Sir David GillFellow
William CotterellFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
George Parker BidderFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow