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
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
James GlaisherFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Joseph BrooksFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Edward John RouthFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
John RamageFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
Capt. Jasper Nicolls HarrisonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
John WaltonFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
George PearsonFellow
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
George CalverFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Edward TyerFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
John RowbothamFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Peter GrayFellow
William Ernest HartleyFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
Maj. Lindsay Atkins EddieFellow
Alexander Davidson FlemingFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow