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
Richard Evan DayFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Joseph KleiberFellow
David SmartFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Lewis BossAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
John MitchellFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Arthur KennedyFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John DanskenFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Walter William BryantFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
William BriggsFellow
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow