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
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Joshua KingFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Lord Edward Spencer ChurchillFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
John GriffithsFellow
David MatraversFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Herbert Hall TurnerFellow
William Arthur SmithFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Hugh Lancelot AldisFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Peter ThompsonFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
Thomas KingFellow
George WallFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Thomas William BushFellow
Peter ClareFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Kenneth Glyn JonesFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Samuel Hickling ParkesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
Rev. Samuel KinnsFellow
William WallaceFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow