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
Frederick SlocumFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Ernest Cuthbert AtkinsonFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
David BaxandallFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
John Knight FotheringhamFellow
B. Sir Bhawani Singh JhalawarFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Penry Vaughan BevanFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Stanley MaxwellFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Louis Napoleon George FilonFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Philip FoxFellow
William PorthouseFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
William NewboldFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Paul GuthnickAssociate
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Alphonso KingFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Peter DoigFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow