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
William Ricketts CooperFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
William FrancisFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
George BishopFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow