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
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
John Johnson ShawFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Akbar AliFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
James Edward NicholsonFellow
Reginald Henry ConsterdineFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Rev. William J. O’LearyFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
John Guy PorterFellow
William Bradshaw HousmanFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Stanley Philip BengeFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
Zdenek KopalFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
William MacIntyreFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Richard SchorrAssociate
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Svein RosselandAssociate
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Henry Ernest GreenFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
Rev. Daniel Joseph Kelly O’ConnellFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Henri MineurFellow
George Douglas BuchananFellow
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Harald von KlüberFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Brig. Edward Aubrey GlennieFellow
John Edmund CalthropFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Robert EmdenAssociate
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Gustavus Wynne CookFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Rev. William Morgan Tate-StoateFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Alan FletcherFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow