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
William BarnettFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Walter MossFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
John BrittainFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Thomas KingFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
George BrufordFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Robert Charles SclaterFellow
John MastinFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
James NangleFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
George InnesFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
John GriggFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
William OttwayFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
Edwin Turner CottinghamFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
William BowyerFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow