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
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
William GilesFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
Peter DoigFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
John William DurradFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Sir David GillFellow