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
Uco van WijkFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
Arthur Henry BakerFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
James RankinFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Rev. Arthur Edwin Brisco OwenFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Lord Archibald Campbell Campbell (Blythswood)Fellow
John Francis ColeFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Capt. Thomas MackenzieFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Sydney Turner KleinFellow
William EllisFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
George CreaserFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Russ EvansFellow
George Frederick ChambersFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Charles StewartFellow
William LassellFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Walter HeathFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
George HuntFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow