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 Carder-DaviesFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
James RankinFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
John BastinFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow