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
Peter KennedyFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Joseph Edward EvansFellow
Rev. Alexander FreemanFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Paul RobertsFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Richard BestFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Crawford Muir FlemingFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
George InnesFellow
William GravattFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
William JohnstonFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay CrawfordFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow