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
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Bertram BennettFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
William BowyerFellow
M-Gen. Henry Spencer PalmerFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
John McDougal FieldFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
John DrewFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Alfred FowlerFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Alfred Ernest YoungFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Rev. Henry CollinsFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow