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
Herbert SadlerFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
David SmithFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Jack Meadows
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
William RutherfordFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
William ShackletonFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William BowyerFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
John BrowningFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow