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
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Hubert GentFellow
David SmithFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
George MorhamFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William ColemanFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
David MossFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John ColesFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow