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
Otto HilgerFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
William GravattFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John PondFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
John NewtonFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow