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 Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
James PettitFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
John FullerFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
William MannFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Richard BestFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm RistenpartFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
George ForbesFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Edward John DentFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
James McDowellFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William LaddFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Emanuel Joseph RistoriFellow
Samuel Arthur SaunderFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow