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
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow