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
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Joshua KingFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
George CalverFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Kenneth Glyn JonesFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow