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. William Francis RiggeFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Akbar AliFellow
John LaverFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
David SmartFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Robert PorrettFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow