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
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
William BarnettFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
William GilesFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
William JohnstonFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
George HuntFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow