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
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Leon HufnagelFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Yusuke HagiharaFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Egbert Adriaan KreikenFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Edgar Girard Croker PooleFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
James Ernest Grant YaldenFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Dhirendra Nath SahaFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Violet Florence WhiteFellow
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
Donald Cameron-SwanFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Alan FletcherFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Henri MineurFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
William MacIntyreFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow