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
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Andy BreenFellow
William FrostFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
Arthur DallasFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
M-Gen. Alfred Wilks DraysonFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
William BowyerFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
William HarnettFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John DrewFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow