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
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Charles MayFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
John BastinFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow