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
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
John PondFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
John MorganFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
James OddieFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
John LaverFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Horace PearceFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
James KnightFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
James PettitFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow