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 Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Edward GayFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Raymond HideFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
William FrancisFellow
George CalverFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
William GodwardFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Ann SavageFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
George HuntFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Takeo HatanakaFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow