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
Edwin ClarkFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
George MorhamFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
William CaryFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
William WillettFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Takeo HatanakaFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow