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
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
John Franklin-AdamsFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
John WatsonFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Beauchamp Prideaux SelbyFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
William AndersonFellow
James CavanFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Frank Arthur BellamyFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
William WillettFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William HarnettFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Sir John Benjamin StoneFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
John EvershedFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
William ShackletonFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Harold John AdamsFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
John TatlockFellow
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John DanskenFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Ralph Allen SampsonFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow