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
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Edward HughesFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Arthur CottamFellow
William Edward RaymondFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
Henry Proctor PalmerFellow
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
John NarrienFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Charles PendleburyFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
William FrancisFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Samuel CottamFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Baron Henry Pirbright (de Worms)Fellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Frederick William NashFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Frederick SlocumFellow
Thomas CushingFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Arthur Matthew Weld DowningFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
John Derby AllcroftFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
William LassellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Albert EscottFellow