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 WillettFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
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
John Couch AdamsFellow
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
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
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
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Richard LaddFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
George William SeriesFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Charles MayFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow