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
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Rev. Robert Sparke HutchingsFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Rev. Charles Douglas Percy DaviesFellow
Sir Edwin Durning-LawrenceFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
Richard HillsFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Col. Archibald Cuthbert Bigg-WitherFellow
William BrookeFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Raymond HideFellow
William WillettFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Basil Reginald Hamilton Taylour (Taylor)Fellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
John William DurradFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
David HughesFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow