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
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Rev. John BoneFellow
Walter William BryantFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William GilesFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Bahne BonniksenFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Rev. Walter BriscombeFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow