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
David Nelson LimberFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
John Grant DaviesFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Thomas Noël Burke-GaffneyFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Charles Francis RichterFellow
Victor Hugo BenioffFellow
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
William BullerwellFellow
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
Joseph ChurmsFellow
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Philip C KeenanFellow
Andrew YoungFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Ewan Adair WhitakerFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Herbert ChatleyFellow
Leonard Stanley Theodore SymmsFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Barbara Mary MiddlehurstFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
John Atherton CleggFellow
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Andrew McKellarFellow
Ernest Ralph LapwoodFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Bn Thomas Mackay Cooper of CulrossFellow
Sir Martin RyleFellow
Robert NaismithFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart BlackettFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Patrick Joseph TreanorFellow
Sir David Robert BatesFellow
Henry Howard HammondFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
Thomas Wilson WormellFellow
Michael William OvendenFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Gunnar RandersFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Albert Edward CarterFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
John Benson SidgwickFellow
Colin Alistair RonanFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Hyman Solomon SpiglFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Richard Francis Turney GrangerFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow