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
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
James PettitFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
John WatsonFellow
John RowbothamFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William BrookeFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
George FrostFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
David MossFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow