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
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
David AitkenFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow