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
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
John BrittainFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
William LassellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow