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
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
James EppsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
William ScottFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William LaddFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
James SimmsFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow