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
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
John PondFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
James GillFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
James PettitFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow