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
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
John James HallFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
James NangleFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Annie Jump CannonHonorary Fellow
John MitchellFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
William BowyerFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
John BrittainFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow