Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
James Robert Jones	15-03-1896	12-02-1869	Fellow
Col William Lambton	23-01-1823	10-01-1823	Fellow
William Garrow Lettsom	14-12-1887	13-04-1849	Fellow
James Carpenter	17-10-1899	08-02-1867	Fellow
William Grant MacGregor	21-12-1903	13-05-1892	Fellow
Capt. William Chimmo	30-10-1891	11-11-1859	Fellow
Arthur James Melhuish	01-11-1895	09-01-1863	Fellow
James Simms	04-09-1915	13-03-1857	Fellow
John Dansken	01-11-1905	10-06-1892	Fellow
James Nangle	22-02-1941	13-11-1908	Fellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-Cox	06-12-1926	14-05-1897	Fellow
Jacob Werner	16-09-1939	10-01-1930	Fellow
John Hartnup	21-04-1892	12-02-1886	Fellow
Thomas Allison	09-01-1926	10-12-1920	Fellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel	18-07-1938	08-02-1895	Fellow
Edward William Brayley	01-02-1870	11-01-1867	Fellow
James Stark Browne	14-05-1931	09-01-1891	Fellow
Theodore Mackenzie	17-11-1952	11-04-1930	Fellow
Alan James Skinner	03-05-1945	09-05-1941	Fellow
Frederick William Nash	29-12-1932	11-01-1889	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Allen Southwood	19-09-1885	13-02-1852	Fellow
Col. George Strahan	07-01-1911	12-03-1869	Fellow
Frank Campbell Dumat	13-08-1931	11-01-1901	Fellow
Samuel Fellows	03-07-1937	11-01-1889	Fellow
Henry Addenbrook Wassell	15-07-1918	10-06-1887	Fellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius Reyneke	20-11-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Charles James Westland	11-07-1950	09-05-1915	Fellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman Godfrey	26-10-1883	09-12-1864	Fellow
Johannes Geiss	30-01-2020	09-02-1990	Honorary Fellow
Arthur Berry	15-08-1929	09-03-1888	Fellow
Sir Gainsford Bruce	24-02-1912	09-12-1887	Fellow
Rev. Robert Comyn Lumsden	25-10-1880	10-05-1861	Fellow
Willie Venner Merrifield	29-07-1929	10-03-1905	Fellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell Slater	02-05-1842	11-11-1831	Fellow
Dr Hugh Neill	21-12-1864	13-06-1851	Fellow
Dr Edmund Johnson Spitta	21-01-1921	12-01-1883	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Perkins	21-03-1907	12-06-1885	Fellow
John McDougal Field	12-04-1937	10-01-1908	Fellow
William Godward	19-05-1897	12-01-1872	Fellow