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
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Julius PageFellow
Oluf Andreas Löwold PihlFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Benjamin GregoryFellow
Takeo HatanakaFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
William Ernest CooperFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
Thomas BuckneyFellow
William Edward WilsonFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Rev. George StreetFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William Henry Stanley MonckFellow
Herbert Lovis Noel Noel-CoxFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Algernon Sidney BicknellFellow
John BrittainFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
William Irving PageFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
James NangleFellow
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Sir Otto JafféFellow
Rev. Edward Bruce KirkFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
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
Edward CrossleyFellow
Capt. Warren Frederick CaborneFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow