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
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Alphonso KingFellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Thomas RobsonFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Louis George MacroryFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
William NewboldFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Isaac MolloyFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
William BowyerFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
William OttwayFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
John GriggFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
George InnesFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
James NangleFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John MastinFellow