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
Herman SchultzAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Robert RawsonFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Edmund WeissAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
William ColemanFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Henry Park HollisFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
James McKerrowFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
John HartnupFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Horace PearceFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
James GillFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
William Henry MawFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
James George PetrieFellow
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
James OddieFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow