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
Carlton John LambertFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Sir William Henry Mahoney ChristieFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
William MannFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
James Whitbread Lee GlaisherFellow
Henry MannFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. Reginald Francis DaleFellow
John BrettFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
William GodwardFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
George WallFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
James Kennedy EsdaileFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Henry PrattFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Edward GayFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
George ForbesFellow
John TebbuttFellow
William James LewisFellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Ernest CarpmaelFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sidney WatersFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
George CreaserFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Rev. Henry Glanville BarnacleFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
William Henry E. ThornthwaiteFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow