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