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
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
John May WaldenFellow
John William DurradFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
George CalverFellow
James CampbellFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
George William HillAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Asaph HallAssociate
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
James RankinFellow
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Thomas CushingFellow
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Charles PendleburyFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
John MarshallFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
John ColesFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
James CookFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Isaac RobertsFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
James LeighFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate