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
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
George KnottFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Zdenek KopalFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Sir Harry KrotoHonorary Fellow
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Comte Eugène Aymar de La Baume PluvinelFellow
Richard LaddFellow
William LaddFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow
Sir Joseph LarmorFellow
William LassellFellow
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
John LaverFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
David Le Conte
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Arthur Herbert LeahyFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
Georges LecointeAssociate
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow
John LeeFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Dr John Rudd LeesonFellow
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
James LeighFellow
Maurice Egerton Leigh-HuntFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Frederick William LevanderFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
William James LewisFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Adolph Friedrich LindemannFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Earl James Ludovic Lindsay (Crawford-Balcarres)Fellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
George Henry LivensFellow
James LockhartFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Bt Edmund Giles LoderFellow
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Arthur William LongFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
Augustus Edward Hough LoveFellow
Ernest Frederick John LoveFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Thomas Edward LutzFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Donald Lynden-BellFellow
William Thynne LynneFellow