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
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
John BrettFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
William LassellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
James CookFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
William James LewisFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow