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
John WatsonFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Carlton John LambertFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
William BarnettFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Daniel HogarthFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
James GillFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
James CookFellow
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
John GriggFellow
James LeighFellow
William EssonFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
George William HillAssociate
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Edward GayFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow