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. Thomas MackerethFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
William EllisFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Eduard LutherAssociate
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
William EssonFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
David SmithFellow
John NewtonFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Charles MasonFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
James BreenFellow
James McDowellFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
George KnottFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
John James MellorFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow