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
Jesse YoungFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Richard BestFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William GilesFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
William ScottFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Kenneth Glyn JonesFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow