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
Edmund WeissAssociate
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
George BrufordFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
George Washington HoughAssociate
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
George KnottFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Rev. John BoneFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
George CalverFellow
James McKerrowFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Maurice LoewyAssociate
John ColesFellow
John NewtonFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
John BrettFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John James MellorFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
William HarnettFellow
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Asaph HallAssociate
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Samuel CottamFellow