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
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Walter George BellFellow
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
William John RobertsFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Fritz CohnAssociate
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
John MastinFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
John EvershedFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
Annie Jump CannonHonorary Fellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
John LaverFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
William BriggsFellow
James HartnessFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James KnightFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
John TatlockFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow