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
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Edward GayFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Asaph HallAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
James George PetrieFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Edward John RouthFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
William JohnstonFellow
William SimmsFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
William John ReynoldsFellow
James RankinFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
John DanskenFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Edward CrossleyFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
William AndersonFellow
William FrancisFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William HarnettFellow