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
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
John BrowningFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
William John ReynoldsFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow