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
Sir James CockleFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
William TomlinsonFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
Robert James MannFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
James SimmsFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
John James MellorFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
George KnottFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
James McDowellFellow
Julien VertuFellow
James BreenFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow