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 TebbuttFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
George WilliamsFellow
James GillFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Julius PageFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow