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 Benjamin DancerFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Edward Rowell BentonFellow
James BreenFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Charles Thomas WhitmellFellow
Carl Venceslas ZengerFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Robert Lewis John ElleryFellow
James Arthur FormoyFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Sir Gainsford BruceFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Nigel WeissFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
David SmithFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
John DanskenFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Arthur BerryFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
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
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
John Valentine JelleyFellow
George KnottFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
George BrufordFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
David MossFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow