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
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Rev. William Francis RiggeFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Charles StewartFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George CalverFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Ashton Charles AllenFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Lawrence Neville HoldenFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Rev. John Mackenzie BaconFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
William Edward PlummerFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow