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
Harold ThomsonFellow
William WilsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Edward TyerFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
John LaverFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
William ColemanFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
John WaltonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
William HarnettFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
John ColesFellow