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
David Nelson LimberFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
William BullerwellFellow
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Andrew YoungFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
John Atherton CleggFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Andrew McKellarFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Albert Edward CarterFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow