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
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Charles HoodFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
George CalverFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
William OttwayFellow