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
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
William MannFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
Francis James WardaleFellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Francis BailyFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Rev. Alfred John Parkman ShepherdFellow
Charles StevensFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
William Henry FinlayFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles Henry GattyFellow
James McDowellFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
John TatlockFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
James GillFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
John BrowningFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Rev. David EmersonFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Christopher ThwaitesFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
M-Gen William Henry WardellFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Charles Hope HarrisFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate