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
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
William ShackletonFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
James EppsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
John PondFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
John BrittainFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
William ScottFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow