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
Peter D. HingleyStaff
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Patrick Brendan ByrneJunior Member
Reginald James HarmanJunior Member
Agnes Mary ClerkeHonorary Fellow
Michael HoskinHonorary Fellow
Neil GehrelsHonorary Fellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Sir Harry KrotoHonorary Fellow
Audouin Charles DollfusHonorary Fellow
Cornelis de JagerHonorary Fellow
Karl FuchsHonorary Fellow
Riccardo GiacconiHonorary Fellow
Eigil Friis-ChristensenHonorary Fellow
Michael J ThompsonHonorary Fellow
Michael William FeastHonorary Fellow
Annie Jump CannonHonorary Fellow
Johannes GeissHonorary Fellow
Margherita HackHonorary Fellow
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Anthony Patrick FairallHonorary Fellow
Lady Margaret Lindsay HugginsHonorary Fellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Williamina Paton Fleming [née Stevens]Honorary Fellow
Churisho HayashiHonorary Fellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Sir Robert Stawell BallFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
William WallaceFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
William AndersonFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John RiddleFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow