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
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
John BrittainFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
William BowyerFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
John MitchellFellow
Annie Jump CannonHonorary Fellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
James NangleFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
John James HallFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
John William DurradFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Walter GoodacreFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Elijah HowarthFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
David BaxandallFellow