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