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
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
John MitchellFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Lewis BossAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
David SmartFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
James OddieFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
James GillFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
John HartnupFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow