Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Died	Elected	Membership status
Samuel Fellows	03-07-1937	11-01-1889	Fellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius Reyneke	20-11-1943	12-01-1923	Fellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman Godfrey	26-10-1883	09-12-1864	Fellow
John Hartnup	21-04-1892	12-02-1886	Fellow
Thomas Allison	09-01-1926	10-12-1920	Fellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel	18-07-1938	08-02-1895	Fellow
Sir Gainsford Bruce	24-02-1912	09-12-1887	Fellow
Rev. Robert Comyn Lumsden	25-10-1880	10-05-1861	Fellow
Cyril Young	22-09-1949	08-03-1929	Fellow
Willie Venner Merrifield	29-07-1929	10-03-1905	Fellow
Dr Hugh Neill	21-12-1864	13-06-1851	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Perkins	21-03-1907	12-06-1885	Fellow
John McDougal Field	12-04-1937	10-01-1908	Fellow
William Godward	19-05-1897	12-01-1872	Fellow
Arthur Berry	15-08-1929	09-03-1888	Fellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven Bolton	25-12-1929	12-05-1905	Fellow
William, Jr Tomlinson	21-01-1886	09-04-1873	Fellow
Violet Florence White	15-09-1946	09-05-1930	Fellow
Donald Maclean	25-12-1932	13-12-1912	Fellow
Margaret Theodora Meyer	27-01-1924	11-02-1916	Fellow
William Bladen Croft	23-03-1928	09-01-1891	Fellow
Sir William Morison	15-05-1851	10-11-1848	Fellow
Hester Periam Hawkins	18-05-1928	14-01-1921	Fellow
Rev. Thomas Robert Terry	03-05-1913	11-03-1881	Fellow
Thomas Edward Knightley	04-09-1905	13-03-1896	Fellow
Bishop John Brinkley	14-09-1835	10-11-1820	Fellow
Arnold Buxton	15-02-1949	10-02-1922	Fellow
Pietro Caturegli	13-04-1833	12-03-1830	Associate
Richard Edward Synge Cooper	04-05-1937	12-06-1891	Fellow
Rev. Peter David Morse	12-06-1917	10-03-1916	Fellow
Rev. Robert Prichard Davies	31-12-1904	12-03-1869	Fellow
George James Newbegin	04-04-1919	13-04-1888	Fellow
Rev. Daniel Dutton	26-08-1931	12-01-1877	Fellow
William Francis	18-01-1904	13-06-1851	Fellow
Edward Riddle	31-03-1854	12-04-1822	Fellow
Thomas Edward Heath	03-01-1918	09-03-1906	Fellow
Alfred Holness	08-10-1926	11-01-1918	Fellow
Capt. John Steele	19-04-1904	13-02-1880	Fellow
Thomas Humphries	30-08-1928	11-03-1921	Fellow