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
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
William ScottFellow
John BastinFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
James William GiffordFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
William CotterellFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Kenneth Glyn JonesFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow