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
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
George BrufordFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
James SimmsFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Harold SewardFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Richard TaylorFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
William FrancisFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
George MorhamFellow
William SimmsFellow
William SimmsFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
George HuntFellow
Francis BailyFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow