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
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Walter A. PostFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Richard HillsFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
William BriggsFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
William CaryFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
John JacksonFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
John James HallFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
George Cox BompasFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
L-Col. Harry James WatsonFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
David HughesFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
James HartnessFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow