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
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
William GravattFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John BrittainFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
William FrancisFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
James John DownesFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
John NewtonFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
James SimmsFellow
James LockhartFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow