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. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
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
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Andrew McKellarFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
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
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
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
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow