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
Harold William ActonFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
Gertrude LongbottomFellow
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
James HartnessFellow
Edward Lindsay InceFellow
Sir Charles Algernon ParsonsFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
William WilsonFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Walter George BellFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
William John RobertsFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
George MorhamFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Herbert DingleFellow