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
Francis Cranmer PenroseFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Henry EllisFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Frank RobbinsFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
George CalverFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. John Horsley HaslamFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Silvanus Phillips ThompsonFellow
William Henry WalmsleyFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Arthur Alcock RambautFellow
Michael Victor PenstonFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Monroe B. SnyderFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
William GodwardFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Rev. John CrouchFellow
Ole Theodor OlsenFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
John Henry BrownFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate