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
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Maures HornerFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
James KnightFellow
George ForbesFellow
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William NewboldFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Willem de SitterAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
James HartnessFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Julius BauschingerAssociate
John Merrill PoorFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow