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
William Thynne LynneFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
William John MacDonnellFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
William Grant MacGregorFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Henry MannFellow
Robert James MannFellow
William MannFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
John MarshallFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Giuseppe Enrico Gilberto MartelliFellow
Pamela Helen Mary Rothwell MartelliFellow
Albert MarthFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Burdett MasonFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
John MastinFellow
John MathesonFellow
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
David MatraversFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
William Henry MawFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
Charles MayFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
James McDowellFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Capt. Robert Cumming McFeeFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
James McKerrowFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Jack Meadows
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Charles MeldrumFellow
Arthur James MelhuishFellow
John James MellorFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Joaquin de Mendizábal-TamborrelFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Gerald MertonFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow