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. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Rev. J. Chadwick BatesFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
William FrancisFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Rev. Peter Hately WaddellFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Rev. James BaikieFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Frederick BrodieFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Adam HilgerFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
David Anthony AllenFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Preston BattersbyFellow
Robert Holford Macdowall BosanquetFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Albert EscottFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Alan HunterFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow