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
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Walter George BellFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
William James LewisFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
M-Gen. William du Gard GrayFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John GlaisherFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow