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
Robert PeeblesFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Peter DoigFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
George MorhamFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow