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 JohnstonFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John McLandsboroughFellow
James PettitFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Edgar Tarry AdamsFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Benjamin Theophilus MooreFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
George InnesFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Richard KerrFellow
Edward Ayearst ReevesFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William HarnettFellow
William FrendFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Charles James MerfieldFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Sir Arthur SchusterFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
George DollondFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
William ColemanFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate