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
Antony HewishFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
John LeeFellow
John Gatenby BoltonFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
John DanskenFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Thomas Dalby BrewinFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
George HuntFellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow