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
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Richard BestFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow