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
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
James PettitFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
George InnesFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Helen J WalkerFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
William Mattieu WilliamsFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Worcester Reed WarnerFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
George CalverFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
James EppsFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Rev. John Edward CrossFellow
George DollondFellow
Lieut. John East Hunter PeytonFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
Abraham Barsley TaylorFellow
George InnesFellow
Samuel VeeversFellow
Col. Thomas Davies SewellFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate