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
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
William NewboldFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Daniel BuckneyFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Thomas RobsonFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Henry BourgetFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Charles StevensFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
John James HallFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Henry EllisFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow