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
William AllenFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
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
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William CaryFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Alan S RodgerFellow
Bernard PagelFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
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
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
George CreaserFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
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
Bertram BennettFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
William BowyerFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Heather CouperFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow