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
Carlton John LambertFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
William MannFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Henry MannFellow
John BrettFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
William GodwardFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
George WallFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Henry PrattFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Edward GayFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
George ForbesFellow
William James LewisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Eduard HeisAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
George CreaserFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow