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
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Eugen von GothardFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
William ColemanFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
John HartnupFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
William Robert BrooksFellow
James GillFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
William Henry MawFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate