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
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
George MorhamFellow
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
William James LewisFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
John TatlockFellow
John BrowningFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
John LaverFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Joseph HoughFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Fritz CohnAssociate
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
William BarnettFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
George BrufordFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Canon David FlemingFellow