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
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
James GillFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
John BrowningFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
William WilsonFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
John DickinsonFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
David MossFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
James BreenFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow