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
Perry ByerlyFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Peter WillmoreFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
George William SeriesFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
James CavanFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Thomas ThorpFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
George DollondFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
Henry William LLoyd TannerFellow
José Luis SérsicFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
James HartnessFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow