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
John MathesonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
William ScottFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow