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
Heather CouperFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Capt. David Joseph KennellyFellow
James LeighFellow
Robert Thorburn Ayton InnesFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
James RankinFellow
Richard BestFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
James CarpenterFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Edward John WhiteFellow
James Henry YoungFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Patrick Henry HepburnFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
William GilesFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Bt Sidney Gerald BurrardFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Rev. Robert CroweFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
George Denton HirstFellow
Bn John Inverclyde (Burns)Fellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Rev. Walter SidgreavesFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Charles Jasper JolyFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Alexander Hamilton HoweFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow