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
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
William BowyerFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
John RowbothamFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
John GlaisherFellow