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
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Gunnar RandersFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Michael William OvendenFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
John Atherton CleggFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow