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
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
George FrostFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow