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
Zdenek KopalFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Perry ByerlyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
John Johnson ShawFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Albert Edward CarterFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Gunnar RandersFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Michael William OvendenFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow