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
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
John LeeFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
George FrostFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
William FrostFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
William AllenFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow