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
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
William ShackletonFellow
John Samuel SlaterFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William BowyerFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
John BrowningFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
James EppsFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John PondFellow
William ScottFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
John BrittainFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow