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
John William DurradFellow
James CavanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Col. Sir Walter Thomas William Spencer StanhopeFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
William James LewisFellow
James McKerrowFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Cmdr. Edward John GriffinFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
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
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Washington TeasdaleFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
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