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
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
John BrittainFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Charles StevensFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow