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
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
John JacksonFellow
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Harold William ActonFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Neal McNeillFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Jason John NassauFellow
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow