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
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Akbar AliFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
George CalverFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
John WilliamsFellow