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
Richard LaddFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
John GlaisherFellow
John James MellorFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Reginald BushellFellow
Rev. John Thomas Windmill ClaridgeFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Henry PrattFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Adm. Sir Herbert Edward Purey CustFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
James CookFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
William LaddFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Joseph GledhillFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John James HallFellow
John NarrienFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
John BrettFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Ernest William HobsonFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
James Thomas JacksonFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
James HartnessFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
George BrufordFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow