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
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
L-Gen. James Francis TennantFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Comte Eugène Aymar de la Baume PluvinelFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Hugh Frank NewallFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Henry Tresawna GerransFellow
Col. Edmond Herbert Grove-HillsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
William Livingstone WatsonFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister KayeFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
William FrendFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
François Joseph Charles TerbyFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Alan S RodgerFellow
Col. William Edwards MichellFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate