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
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Eugen von GothardFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Richard LaddFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
William ColemanFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Harold SewardFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
John HartnupFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
James GillFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
James OddieFellow