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
Leon HufnagelFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
John BrowningFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Johannes GeissHonorary Fellow
James EppsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
George HuntFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
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
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
John MitchellFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Charles StevensFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow