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
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Charles MasonFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
William FrendFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Henry PrattFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
James SimmsFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow