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
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Frank FlowersFellow
John GriggFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Annibale RiccòAssociate
James CookFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
James McKerrowFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Daniel HogarthFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Joseph BrooksFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Burdett MasonFellow
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
William EllisFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
William EssonFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
John James MellorFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
James SimmsFellow
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Richard KerrFellow
William WillettFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Joshua JukesFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow