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
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
William WilsonFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Alan MoorwoodFellow
David CarterFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
James John DownesFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Herbert Francis AcocksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
William WilsonFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow