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
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
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
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
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
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Henri MineurFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Alan FletcherFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow