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
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
James SimmsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Ann SavageFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
George MorhamFellow
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
John MastinFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Arthur Mason WorthingtonFellow
James John DownesFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
John Francis ColeFellow
William SimmsFellow
George Johnstone StoneyFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
John Adelbert ParkhurstFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Edmund Neville Nevill (aliasNeison)Fellow
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
George WilliamsFellow
Rev. Aloysius Laurence CortieFellow
John TatlockFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
Harold SewardFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Thomas William BackhouseFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Rev. Thomas PerkinsFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
James CampbellFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow