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
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
John BastinFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
William GravattFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
George MorhamFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Charles BartonFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow