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
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
John MastinFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
James John DownesFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
John MathesonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
James CampbellFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow