Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Rudolph Moritz	20-08-1940	13-11-1931	Fellow
James Epps	10-08-1839	09-11-1838	Fellow
Sir James South	19-10-1867	08-02-1820	Fellow
Edwin Story	01-02-1886	08-11-1867	Fellow
John Johnston Ross	27-05-1948	13-02-1920	Fellow
Ernest Tillotson	29-03-1981	13-04-1928	Fellow
Arthur Hands	18-09-1924	13-01-1899	Fellow
Antonio Vela-Herranz	08-06-1927	10-03-1922	Fellow
Edward Rupert Hicks	27-11-1927	11-02-1910	Fellow
Dr Robert Ballard	30-07-1945	11-02-1927	Fellow
Walter Ernest Besley	29-06-1905	10-01-1902	Fellow
Carlo Brioschi	29-01-1833	10-05-1822	Associate
Rev. Thomas Henry Leale	01-02-1913	12-01-1906	Fellow
Major Thomas Vallancey Lysaght	29-06-1849	12-05-1848	Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNally	04-03-1955	08-03-1929	Fellow
Edward Crossley	21-01-1905	14-06-1867	Fellow
Walter Moss	14-12-1958	13-01-1911	Fellow
Albert Escott	28-10-1891	13-05-1864	Fellow
William Shackleton	26-06-1921	08-12-1893	Fellow
Alfred Henry Fison	04-02-1923	08-05-1891	Fellow
John Samuel Slater	07-04-1911	08-01-1892	Fellow
Hyman Solomon Spigl	20-08-1962	14-02-1941	Fellow
John Riddle	11-10-1862	13-11-1846	Fellow
Walter Goodacre	01-05-1938	09-01-1885	Fellow
William Harold Tingey	03-08-1917	10-02-1899	Fellow
George Hunt	09-07-1896	13-04-1866	Fellow
Capt. John Betham	23-01-1834	10-12-1830	Fellow
John Brittain	24-01-1943	09-12-1910	Fellow
Rev. Edmund Ledger	18-12-1913	11-02-1876	Fellow
Frederic Newton	03-10-1909	13-04-1877	Fellow
James George Petrie	22-09-1907	10-05-1889	Fellow
John Pond	07-09-1836	08-02-1820	Fellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)	03-09-1936	14-12-1894	Fellow
Henry Hayden Waters	14-09-1939	10-01-1919	Fellow
John Alexander Armstrong	25-11-1938	08-04-1927	Fellow
Benjamin John Hopkins	16-01-1894	13-04-1883	Fellow
Joseph Beck	18-04-1891	08-02-1861	Fellow
John Jenkins	16-12-1868	08-04-1842	Fellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley Keeling	25-09-1919	08-11-1907	Fellow