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
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
William BriggsFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William ColemanFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John ColesFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow