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
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
John NewtonFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow