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
William BarnettFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Walter MossFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
John BrittainFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Thomas KingFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Willem de SitterAssociate
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
George BrufordFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
John MastinFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
James William GiffordFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
James NangleFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
George InnesFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
John GriggFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
William OttwayFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
William BowyerFellow