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
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Sir John Anthony CarrollFellow
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
William Herbert SteavensonFellow
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Rupert WildtFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Donald MugglestoneFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Francis Gilbert BrownFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Carlos Cruz-GonzálezFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Norman David WatkinsFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Harald von KlüberFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Alan FletcherFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Gerald MertonFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
George Ogden AbellFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow