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
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
George KnottFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Akbar AliFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
William WilsonFellow
John DanskenFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
William GilesFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
William WilsonFellow
Jon DariusFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow