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
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
William SimmsFellow
George CreaserFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
James NangleFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
George KnottFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
William SimmsFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow