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
Angus ArmitageFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Thomas GordonFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
William LassellFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Thomas Richard CarsonFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
Wieslaw Zygmunt WisniewskiFellow
George Richard FarncombeFellow
Maj. Gerald Edward GalbraithFellow
John MitchellFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Sir William HugginsFellow
Rev. Edward Aurelius AdamsFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Otto Julius KlotzFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
John BrowningFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
John WatsonFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Andrew Russell ForsythFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Henry Zouch DarrahFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John Ellard GoreFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Richard Frind RobertsFellow
Sir William SchoolingFellow
Sir Cuthbert Edgar PeekFellow
Charles Alfred PostFellow
Joshua JukesFellow
Bn John Burns (Inverclyde)Fellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
John Campbell BrownFellow
Herbert ShawFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Rev. Adam Storey FarrarFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Gustavus William NicollsFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate