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
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Julius PageFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
William WilsonFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Peter DoigFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Richard BestFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
William GodwardFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow