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
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
John MathesonFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
John HippisleyFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George InnesFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
David BaxandallFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Mitchell SeabrokeFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Robert Bellamy CliftonFellow
James Robert JonesFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
John Penn HartreeFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Ralph CopelandFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
Raymond Hill GodfreyFellow
Alphonso KingFellow
George InnesFellow
Jacob Karl Ernst HalmFellow
John EvershedFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Joseph Supino AnconaFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow