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
Alfred MorrisFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
James PettitFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
George PearsonFellow
Reginald James HarmanJunior Member
John Robinson AireyFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
John WaltonFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Henry MannFellow
Sir Harry KrotoHonorary Fellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
George InnesFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Francis James WardaleFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
James McDowellFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Julius PageFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Harold SewardFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
James CarpenterFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow