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
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
James HartnessFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John WatsonFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
John BrowningFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow