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
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
John BrittainFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
William ColemanFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
William CotterellFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow