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 TyerFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
David SmartFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Sir David GillFellow
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
George William HillAssociate
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
William OttwayFellow
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
William WillettFellow
Richard KerrFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
James SimmsFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John James MellorFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William EssonFellow
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
William EllisFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Burdett MasonFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
William Ernest HartleyFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow