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
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
William OttwayFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
George William HillAssociate
William Arthur SmithFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Sir David GillFellow
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
David SmartFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Lewis SwiftFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Lewis BossAssociate
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Isaac MolloyFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Herbert ShawFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
John WatsonFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
James CavanFellow
William ColemanFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
James OddieFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
John ColesFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Simon NewcombAssociate
John Peter George SmithFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
George Washington HoughAssociate
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
John Macon ThomeAssociate