Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Francis James Wardale	14-03-1942	13-01-1888	Fellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert Lee	12-03-1920	14-06-1907	Fellow
Edward Weldon	06-02-1932	12-02-1897	Fellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCaw	17-10-1942	09-03-1906	Fellow
Sir William Cubitt	13-10-1861	14-05-1824	Fellow
James Pettit	25-11-1850	08-04-1825	Fellow
Alexander Davidson Fleming	08-04-1945	14-12-1906	Fellow
Henry Tresawna Gerrans	20-06-1921	09-05-1902	Fellow
Emanuel Joseph Ristori	21-05-1911	11-05-1883	Fellow
Thomas Gordon	28-02-1909	08-05-1891	Fellow
Wladimír Wáclav Heinrich	30-05-1965	12-02-1926	Fellow
Rev. Frederick Silver	28-08-1884	11-05-1855	Fellow
Rev. James William St. Clare Hill	10-06-1926	08-05-1925	Fellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-Stoate	10-03-1934	08-04-1932	Fellow
Daniel Alberto Valencio	25-05-1987	08-02-1985	Associate
William Wilson	17-01-1861	13-06-1845	Fellow
John Robinson McClean	13-07-1873	08-01-1858	Fellow
Humphrey Barker Chamberlin	16-05-1897	13-05-1892	Fellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles Otter	26-03-1876	11-11-1842	Fellow
George Pearson	07-08-1928	13-02-1925	Fellow
Reginald James Harman	17-09-1963	12-01-1962	Junior Member
Harold Seward	14-10-1903	12-12-1884	Fellow
Charles Edward Barns	24-05-1937	11-01-1929	Fellow
Abraham Barsley Taylor	29-06-1921	14-01-1910	Fellow
Cmdr Thomas Boteler	28-11-1829	09-05-1828	Fellow
Samuel Veevers	11-02-1916	08-02-1907	Fellow
Lady Mary Thomazine Lockyer	09-09-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskey	22-04-1979	13-05-1966	Fellow
Henry Mann	20-08-1879	12-05-1871	Fellow
Solomon Moses Drach	08-02-1879	14-05-1841	Fellow
Capt. John Francis Egerton	23-01-1846	08-01-1841	Fellow
Spencer Lavington Fletcher	11-11-1920	08-11-1901	Fellow
Rev. William Robinson Gilby	23-02-1848	10-01-1834	Fellow
Edward Roberts	04-08-1933	09-02-1872	Fellow
Bt Cyril C. Graham	09-05-1895	12-11-1858	Fellow
Rev. John Spence	13-02-1921	09-04-1897	Fellow
Joseph Hough	14-11-1924	12-12-1873	Fellow
Archibald William Tindall-Lucas	13-03-1941	14-11-1919	Fellow
Henry Bourget	21-09-1921	09-01-1903	Fellow
James McDowell	17-03-1885	10-01-1862	Fellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward Murphy	09-08-1836	12-04-1833	Fellow
Capt. Ernest William Owens	14-08-1915	08-05-1903	Fellow
Alexander Foote	06-06-1917	11-05-1900	Fellow
Henry Reginald Fry	27-07-1950	11-04-1919	Fellow
Col. Charles Ratcliff	28-08-1885	08-05-1874	Fellow
Richard Frind Roberts	13-06-1917	12-01-1906	Fellow
Charles Hope Harris	26-06-1915	14-01-1910	Fellow
William Bradshaw Housman	17-01-1955	12-11-1937	Fellow
George Innes	03-05-1929	11-01-1907	Fellow
Richard Kerr	19-05-1915	09-01-1903	Fellow
Julien Vertu	22-07-1869	10-01-1862	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Laing	10-12-1930	08-05-1914	Fellow
Isaac Brown	03-11-1895	10-01-1851	Fellow
Frederick William Longbottom	07-03-1933	09-06-1905	Fellow
Cyril Young	22-09-1949	08-03-1929	Fellow
Col Ernest Elliott Markwick	04-07-1925	14-03-1879	Fellow
Jesse Scoffin Nimkey	17-12-1891	11-01-1889	Fellow
Julius Page	06-08-1883	13-06-1845	Fellow
Walter A. Post	12-02-1912	09-03-1894	Fellow
Frank Robertson	27-09-1873	11-02-1859	Fellow
Capt. Thomas Graves	28-08-1856	13-01-1826	Fellow
Alexander Hamilton Howe	21-07-1895	12-01-1883	Fellow
Stanley Philip Benge	08-10-1943	08-05-1936	Fellow
Col William Lambton	23-01-1823	10-01-1823	Fellow
William Garrow Lettsom	14-12-1887	13-04-1849	Fellow
Violet Florence White	15-09-1946	09-05-1930	Fellow
William Grant MacGregor	21-12-1903	13-05-1892	Fellow
Arthur James Melhuish	01-11-1895	09-01-1863	Fellow
James Nangle	22-02-1941	13-11-1908	Fellow
Charles Robert dEsterre	11-09-1943	08-02-1895	Fellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-Cox	06-12-1926	14-05-1897	Fellow
Richard Abbatt	15-09-1884	08-02-1833	Fellow
Arthur Ernest Hodgson	11-02-1912	13-11-1903	Fellow
Thomas Bauchope	08-12-1889	11-11-1887	Fellow
James Robert Jones	15-03-1896	12-02-1869	Fellow
William, Jr Tomlinson	21-01-1886	09-04-1873	Fellow
William Bowyer	31-01-1942	14-04-1905	Fellow
John Browning	14-12-1925	10-03-1865	Fellow
Theodore Mackenzie	17-11-1952	11-04-1930	Fellow
Frederick William Nash	29-12-1932	11-01-1889	Fellow
Samuel Fellows	03-07-1937	11-01-1889	Fellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius Reyneke	20-11-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman Godfrey	26-10-1883	09-12-1864	Fellow
John Hartnup	21-04-1892	12-02-1886	Fellow
Arthur Baily	08-07-1858	08-02-1820	Fellow
Capt. John Steele	19-04-1904	13-02-1880	Fellow
Bernhard Richard Baumgardt	19-06-1935	11-02-1927	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Robert Terry	03-05-1913	11-03-1881	Fellow
John May Walden	16-01-1887	11-02-1876	Fellow
Rev. Robert Comyn Lumsden	25-10-1880	10-05-1861	Fellow
Edward Tremlett Carter	16-04-1903	09-01-1891	Fellow
Willie Venner Merrifield	29-07-1929	10-03-1905	Fellow
Frederick Richard Cripps	29-01-1954	10-04-1908	Fellow
Anil Kumar Das	16-02-1961	11-01-1935	Fellow
Dr Hugh Neill	21-12-1864	13-06-1851	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Perkins	21-03-1907	12-06-1885	Fellow
John McDougal Field	12-04-1937	10-01-1908	Fellow
William Godward	19-05-1897	12-01-1872	Fellow
Herbert Sadler	01-06-1898	12-11-1876	Fellow
James Lidderdale Scott	16-04-1908	09-01-1891	Fellow