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
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
William TomlinsonFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
Robert James MannFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Capt. William NobleFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
James SimmsFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
John James MellorFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
George KnottFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Richard InwardsFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Julien VertuFellow
James BreenFellow
James McDowellFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Charles MasonFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow