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
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell Clerke	19-04-1849	14-01-1831	Fellow
Rev. John Crouch	02-01-1925	13-01-1911	Fellow
James Kennedy Esdaile	06-01-1908	09-02-1872	Fellow
Murray Geddes	23-07-1944	11-01-1935	Fellow
John James Lewis Goodridge	13-03-1936	11-01-1889	Fellow
John Edwards Griffith	04-07-1933	08-02-1878	Fellow
Charles Bousfield Shaw	13-12-1925	11-02-1921	Fellow
Adam Hilger	23-04-1897	10-02-1882	Fellow
Charles Hood	10-12-1889	11-01-1833	Fellow
Rev. Philip Hunt	17-09-1838	09-05-1828	Fellow
Rev. Francis Anthony Tondorf	29-11-1929	11-02-1927	Fellow
George Douglas Buchanan	26-08-1941	12-04-1933	Fellow
Charles John Philip Cave	08-12-1950	11-01-1918	Fellow
Thomas Hugh Close	12-05-1951	09-04-1915	Fellow
Rev. William Dealtry	15-10-1847	09-11-1839	Fellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins Eddie	13-10-1913	14-05-1880	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. James William St. Clare Hill	10-06-1926	08-05-1925	Fellow
Rev. Henry Glanville Barnacle	24-08-1938	08-05-1874	Fellow
Rev. John William Whittaker	23-08-1854	08-12-1820	Fellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert Lee	12-03-1920	14-06-1907	Fellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCaw	17-10-1942	09-03-1906	Fellow
Philip James Chabot	11-01-1868	13-06-1845	Fellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles Otter	26-03-1876	11-11-1842	Fellow
George Pearson	07-08-1928	13-02-1925	Fellow
William Scott	08-07-1854	13-03-1835	Fellow
Reginald James Harman	17-09-1963	12-01-1962	Junior Member
John Robinson Airey	16-09-1937	12-06-1931	Fellow
Wadham Locke Sutton	25-09-1896	10-11-1854	Fellow
Edward Troughton	12-06-1835	08-02-1820	Fellow
Charles Clement Walker	04-02-1897	14-03-1879	Fellow
Dr John Bostock	06-08-1846	10-11-1820	Fellow
Charles Heard Wild	19-07-1857	09-02-1855	Fellow
John Robinson McClean	13-07-1873	08-01-1858	Fellow