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
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Alan FletcherFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Henri MineurFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow