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
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
William MannFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
William John RobertsFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
James McDowellFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William ShackletonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
William OttwayFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
John GriggFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow