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
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
John GriggFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
George ForbesFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
David AitkenFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow