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
John JacksonFellow
Walter MossFellow
Harold William ActonFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Frederick Charles LeonardFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Sir Harold Spencer JonesFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Harold ThomsonFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Reginald James HarmanJunior Member
Takeo HatanakaFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Julius BartelsAssociate
William PorthouseFellow
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
David James Reginald EdneyFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Wladimír Wáclav HeinrichFellow
Bertil LindbladAssociate
John Campbell BeggFellow
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Uco van WijkFellow
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Reginald Robert Samuel CoxFellow
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Frederick James HargreavesFellow
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
William Morley BaxterFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Robert Edward Beaumont MunroFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Robert NaismithFellow
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate