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
John Ellard GoreFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
George CalverFellow
James CampbellFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
John William DurradFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
John May WaldenFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
George CreaserFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Ralph CopelandFellow
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Joseph HoughFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
William James LewisFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
George ForbesFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Edward GayFellow
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate