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
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
James OddieFellow
David SmartFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
William Bladen CroftFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John DanskenFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Walter William BryantFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
William BriggsFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
George Cox BompasFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow