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. Fearon FallowsFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
John ColesFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Charles NielsenFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
John WaltonFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
William GilesFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
John MastinFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
David SmartFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow