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
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
John BrowningFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
George InnesFellow
William GravattFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Alexander Eugen ConradyFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
James BreenFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow