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
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
James BreenFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
William LaddFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
George FrostFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
George MorhamFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
John MathesonFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
George BrufordFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
William FrostFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow