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
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
David AitkenFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William CaryFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Sir David BruntFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John WilliamsFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow