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 Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
William WilsonFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
David CarterFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
William WilsonFellow
William LassellFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
John William DurradFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
James SimmsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow