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
Douglas Reginald Bassett SawFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Sir Harold JeffreysFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
William Edwin FoxFellow
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Michael William OvendenFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Harold William NewtonFellow
Alexander ThomFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
John Eric JacksonFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Eric Gray ForbesFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Gerald MertonFellow
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Wendell Carden DeMarcusFellow
John Anthony Joseph WhelanFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Sidney Wilcox McCuskeyFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Louis Byrne SlichterFellow
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow