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
Charles Stevens	01-12-1918	10-02-1899	Fellow
Kennet Pollock	27-09-1968	14-11-1924	Fellow
Rev. George Burgess Wildig	09-12-1853	08-02-1820	Fellow
Henry Bedingfield Goodwin	24-02-1927	14-02-1919	Fellow
Roberto Rossi	17-03-1919	10-01-1913	Fellow
Arthur Stanley Williams	21-11-1938	09-05-1884	Fellow
Henry Burdett Hederstedt	29-04-1915	08-02-1878	Fellow
Donald William Horner	28-02-1944	14-02-1913	Fellow
William Benjamin Hutchinson	20-04-1898	13-01-1888	Fellow
Thomas Keig	13-04-1896	08-02-1889	Fellow
Sir William Cubitt	13-10-1861	14-05-1824	Fellow
Charles Stewart	06-09-1897	10-11-1865	Fellow
Sir Robert Pearce	29-09-1922	12-01-1877	Fellow
George James Gibbs	22-02-1947	12-01-1912	Fellow
Thomas Wilson Wormell	03-01-1985	13-07-1945	Fellow
Capt. John Grover	06-11-1847	12-02-1836	Fellow
Charles Edward Barns	24-05-1937	11-01-1929	Fellow
James Gall Inglis	06-04-1939	13-01-1939	Fellow
Arthur Kennedy	14-08-1902	13-03-1891	Fellow
Cmdr Thomas Boteler	28-11-1829	09-05-1828	Fellow
Humphrey Barker Chamberlin	16-05-1897	13-05-1892	Fellow
Joseph Maguire	08-04-1896	10-02-1865	Fellow
Rev. James Pearson	08-04-1886	10-04-1874	Fellow
John Walton	03-01-1863	13-06-1845	Fellow
Sir Harry Kroto	13-05-2016	11-02-2005	Honorary Fellow
Rev. James Inman	07-02-1859	14-01-1831	Fellow
Henry Bourget	21-09-1921	09-01-1903	Fellow
Rev. Frederick Silver	28-08-1884	11-05-1855	Fellow
Robert Edward Beaumont Munro	01-09-1972	08-11-1968	Fellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone Nicholson	27-07-1866	10-06-1825	Fellow
Solomon Moses Drach	08-02-1879	14-05-1841	Fellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-Stoate	10-03-1934	08-04-1932	Fellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco Owen	03-07-1925	12-01-1906	Fellow
Capt. John Francis Egerton	23-01-1846	08-01-1841	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
Robert Graham	16-12-1864	13-06-1845	Fellow
William Henry Hennah	25-09-1881	09-05-1873	Fellow