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
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
James John DownesFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
John LaverFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
William BowyerFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
George HuntFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow