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
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
John Johnson ShawFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Akbar AliFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Perry ByerlyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Henri MineurFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow