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
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bryan CooksonFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Bt Park GoffFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
William AndersonFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Georges LecointeAssociate
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Rev. George StreetFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Thomas RobsonFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow