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
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
James Stark BrowneFellow
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
William Frederick DenningFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Alfred WolferAssociate
John Brise ColgroveFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
William BriggsFellow
John MastinFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
James HartnessFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow