Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Richard Coward Johnson	10-11-1910	14-01-1876	Fellow
Rev. Isaac Vale Mummery	02-10-1892	11-02-1853	Fellow
Alfred Edward Nicholls	04-03-1906	10-03-1905	Fellow
William Samuel Downes	05-12-1868	12-04-1850	Fellow
Rev. Frederick Silver	28-08-1884	11-05-1855	Fellow
Sidney Herbert Pope	12-05-1940	10-02-1928	Fellow
James Rankin	04-06-1906	10-01-1879	Fellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-Stoate	10-03-1934	08-04-1932	Fellow
Samuel Forster Grace	30-04-1937	11-04-1930	Fellow
Colin Stanley Gum	29-04-1960	14-10-1955	Fellow
Daniel Alberto Valencio	25-05-1987	08-02-1985	Associate
Francis James Wardale	14-03-1942	13-01-1888	Fellow
Edward Weldon	06-02-1932	12-02-1897	Fellow
John James Aubertin	24-08-1900	11-01-1895	Fellow
John Campbell Begg	08-11-1965	12-01-1923	Fellow
Everard Home Roberts Coleman	28-01-1906	10-06-1853	Fellow
Charles May	10-08-1860	12-06-1835	Fellow
John Mitchell	14-04-1941	09-01-1891	Fellow
Harold Seward	14-10-1903	12-12-1884	Fellow
Lieut. Henry Raper	06-01-1859	13-11-1829	Fellow
Abraham Barsley Taylor	29-06-1921	14-01-1910	Fellow
Samuel Veevers	11-02-1916	08-02-1907	Fellow
William Wilson	17-01-1861	13-06-1845	Fellow
Charles Barton	13-09-1892	12-03-1869	Fellow
George Innes	22-05-1842	09-12-1836	Fellow
Alfred Dillon Bell	15-04-1933	11-01-1929	Fellow
Dr William Ambrose Kibbler	10-09-1903	14-02-1902	Fellow
William Ladd	16-04-1885	12-04-1867	Fellow
Arthur Burnet	04-07-1950	11-03-1921	Fellow
Isaac Waithman Long	29-05-1860	14-12-1849	Fellow
Cyrus Augustus Macfarlane	19-05-1932	09-01-1931	Fellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)	05-02-1880	12-01-1872	Fellow
John Brise Colgrove	29-10-1931	12-11-1875	Fellow
John Drew	17-12-1857	09-01-1846	Fellow
Col. Frederick Page	08-04-1834	09-05-1828	Fellow
Rev. John Spence	13-02-1921	09-04-1897	Fellow
Archibald William Tindall-Lucas	13-03-1941	14-11-1919	Fellow
Augustus S. Harrison	22-06-1885	14-01-1876	Fellow
Elijah Howarth	01-04-1938	14-01-1881	Fellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]	03-11-1974	11-05-1962	Staff