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
Sir John PenderFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
John NarrienFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
George CalverFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry PrattFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow