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
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Raphael Louis BischoffsheimFellow
William ColemanFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
George BishopFellow
John ColesFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow