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
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Peter DoigFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Georges LecointeAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
George MorhamFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
William PorthouseFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow