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
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Alfred FowlerFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
David SmartFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Lewis BossAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
John MitchellFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Arthur KennedyFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
John DanskenFellow
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Walter William BryantFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
William BriggsFellow
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow