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
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William GilesFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow