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
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Col. Charles Leigh-LyeFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Walter Frederick GaleFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
William NewboldFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Stavros PlakidisFellow
Rev. Edmund GoetzFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
William BarnettFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
Charles Frederick Ortmann SmithFellow
Dyfrig JonesFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
William LaddFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Henry BourgetFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
William CaryFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Bryan CooksonFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Jonadab McCarthyFellow
Takehiko MatukumaFellow
Robert CourtenayFellow
Edward John DentFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Robert d’Escourt AtkinsonFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Arthur Neville BrownFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Rev. Septimus BussFellow
Gordon Leonard ClarkFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Bt Park GoffFellow
Louis Stromeyer LittleFellow
Frederic HammondFellow
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
John Edmund DrowerFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Julien VertuFellow
John Robinson AireyFellow
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate