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
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Sallie Duffield Proctor-SmythFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Walter Orr RobertsFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
John GriggFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Earl Laurence Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Francisca HerschelFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
William ColemanFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Sir Joseph Norman LockyerFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Baron John William Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henry Chamberlain RussellFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir George Francis HardyFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Raphael MeldolaFellow
Frank FlowersFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
John LaverFellow
William Harold TingeyFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John BrowningFellow
John Earle MaxwellFellow
William John RobertsFellow
Hubert GentFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
George FrostFellow
Sir Andrew NobleFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
George Stickland CriswickFellow
William Fraser DoakFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate