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. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
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
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
William FrancisFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Bn Sir William Thomson (Kelvin)Fellow
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
John James AubertinFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Fred TaylorFellow
Francis Richard Wegg-ProsserFellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)Fellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
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
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Edward James StoneFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow