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
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Peter DoigFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
John Campbell BeggFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Robert PeeblesFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
John LaverFellow
Bernard Page ScattergoodFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
George PearsonFellow
Arthur Frederick BennettFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Rev. James William St. Clare HillFellow
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
Dorothea Klumpke RobertsFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Kiyotsugu HirayamaFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
William Tyler OlcottFellow
Rev. Herbert HedleyFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
James Ruthven BrownFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate