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
Jean DufayAssociate
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
William Edwin FoxFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Julius BartelsAssociate
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
John Guy PorterFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Harald von KlüberFellow
Robert Edwin Witton MaddisonFellow
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow