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
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
John DrewFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
George WilliamsFellow
John JacksonFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow