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
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
John LaverFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
George William SeriesFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
John NewtonFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow