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
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
George KnottFellow
William RoxburghFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
William SimmsFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
David AitkenFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
John TatlockFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
John JenkinsFellow
James RankinFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
George FrostFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Walter MossFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
William SimmsFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow