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
Edward WeldonFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
John LaverFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow