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
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
James KnightFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
George MorhamFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
William GilesFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow