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
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
George FrostFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow