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. John Edward CrossFellow
John NewtonFellow
David SmithFellow
Richard MundayFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
William EssonFellow
Col. Michael Foster WardFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
Charles George TalmageFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Edward TyerFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
William EllisFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
John BrowningFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Col. Alexander Burton-BrownFellow
George WilliamsFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Harry Samuel WilliamsFellow
Baron John William Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
John MathesonFellow
George HuntFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Rev. Frank BesantFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
James CarpenterFellow
John MorganFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward Ernest BowenFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
William LaddFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Sir David GillFellow
William CotterellFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow