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
George Darley LardnerFellow
James PettitFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
John DanskenFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
George MorhamFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
James RankinFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
William BriggsFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
George WilliamsFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow