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
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Charles NielsenFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Henry Park HollisFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Henry EllisFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
John TatlockFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
James KnightFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
James HartnessFellow
William BriggsFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
John LaverFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Annie Jump CannonHonorary Fellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
John EvershedFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow