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
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
John Eric BullardFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Walter MossFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
John JacksonFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
John EvershedFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
William Henry OwstonFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow