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
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
William NewboldFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
George ForbesFellow
James KnightFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Maures HornerFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
David BaxandallFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Walter GoodacreFellow
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
John William DurradFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow