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
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
William MacIntyreFellow
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Ludwig BeckerFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Bt John Charles William HerschelFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Charles John Philip CaveFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Thomas Hugh CloseFellow
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Charles Lane PoorFellow
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
Sir Richard Arman GregoryFellow
Peter DoigFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Rev. Robert Fermor RendellFellow
Henri MineurFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
John EvershedFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate