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
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
John MathesonFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Jon DariusFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
William NewboldFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
John Russell HindFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow