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
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
James HartnessFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Edward GayFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow