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 BrowningFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
William EllisFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Eduard LutherAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
William EssonFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
David SmithFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
John NewtonFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Charles MasonFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Arthur CottamFellow
James BreenFellow
James McDowellFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
George KnottFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
John James MellorFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow