Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Born	Died	Elected	Membership status
Cmdr. James Wolfe		29-11-1849	13-03-1829	Fellow
Arnold Wolfendale	25-06-1927	21-12-2020	09-03-1973
Alfred Wolfer	27-01-1854	08-10-1931	13-06-1913	Associate
William Hyde Wollaston	06-08-1766	22-12-1828	14-11-1828	Fellow
Jan, Jr Woltjer	03-08-1891	28-01-1946	13-01-1922	Fellow
Frank Bradshaw Wood	21-12-1915	20-12-1997	09-12-1955	Fellow
Harley Weston Wood	31-07-1911	26-06-1984	13-01-1939	Fellow
Harry Edwin Wood	03-02-1881	27-02-1946	07-04-1909	Fellow
Capt. Hugh Montague Wood	28-09-1886	06-08-1930	11-06-1926	Fellow
John Woodrow	25-09-1858	19-12-1915	12-04-1912	Fellow
Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley	24-04-1906	24-12-1986	08-02-1929	Fellow
John Webb Woollgar	07-11-1795	06-03-1851	12-01-1821	Fellow
Leslie Woolven		05-08-1944	10-06-1932	Fellow
Thomas Wilson Wormell		03-01-1985	13-07-1945	Fellow
Baron Henry de Worms (Pirbright)	20-10-1840	09-01-1903	13-12-1861	Fellow
Hale Wortham		18-04-1899	14-03-1856	Fellow
Arthur Mason Worthington	11-06-1852	05-12-1916	09-02-1877	Fellow
Baron Fabian Jacob Wrede	09-10-1802	22-05-1893	10-01-1845	Associate
Arthur Williams Wright	08-09-1836	19-12-1915	10-01-1879	Fellow
Rev. Alfred Wrigley	13-01-1818	30-01-1898	11-03-1842	Fellow
Baron John Wrottesley	05-08-1798	27-10-1867	29-02-1820	Fellow
Ernest Henry Charles Wunderlich	16-05-1859	11-04-1945	10-11-1922	Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)	19-05-1812	06-10-1871	08-04-1831	Fellow
Charles Gorrie Wynne	18-05-1911	01-10-1999	14-03-1947	Fellow
James Ernest Grant Yalden	06-02-1870	22-02-1937	10-01-1930	Fellow
Andrew Yeates	02-02-1800	16-02-1876	08-03-1861	Fellow
Col. William Yolland	17-03-1810	04-09-1885	14-02-1840	Fellow
Alfred Ernest Young	04-02-1869	30-12-1930	08-05-1896	Fellow
Andrew Young	16-12-1919	24-11-1992	11-05-1951	Fellow
Anne Sewell Young	02-01-1871	15-08-1961	09-06-1922	Fellow
Charles Augustus Young	15-12-1834	03-01-1908	08-11-1872	Associate
Cyril Young		22-09-1949	08-03-1929	Fellow
James Henry Young	23-01-1858	24-09-1900	12-05-1893	Fellow
Jesse Young		08-10-1909	12-01-1877	Fellow
Baron Franz Xaver von Zach	04-06-1754	02-09-1832	14-12-1821	Associate
Herman Zanstra	03-11-1894	02-10-1972	08-02-1929	Fellow, later Associate
Carl Venceslas Zenger	17-12-1830	22-01-1908	11-06-1875	Fellow
Meade Lafayette Zimmer	03-05-1880	05-02-1945	08-12-1922	Fellow
Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner	08-11-1834	25-04-1882	08-11-1872	Associate
Fritz Zwicky	14-02-1898	08-02-1974	09-12-1955	Fellow