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
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Maxwell HallFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Robert KillipFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
John JacksonFellow
William Morris BeaufortFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Nathaniel Everett GreenFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Charles Edward AdamsFellow
Richard BestFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Rev. William HallFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
David AitkenFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Arthur Williams WrightFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Harold SewardFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
John WilliamsFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow