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
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
David SmithFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow