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
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
John Russell HindFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Charles MayFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Julius PageFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
William FrancisFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
George KnottFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow