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
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Edward GayFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
John NewtonFellow
James LockhartFellow
James CavanFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
William FrancisFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
John BrittainFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
George InnesFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
James LeighFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow