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
Uco van WijkFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Louis George MacroryFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
Beno GutenbergFellow
John Whitehouse Frederick AllnuttFellow
Bernhard Richard BaumgardtFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Rev. John Turnbull BirdFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Lewis SwiftFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Sir William PetersenFellow
John William Robinson PunchFellow
Baron John Fletcher MoultonFellow
Ernst Julius ÖpikFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Rev. Philip Henry KempthorneFellow
Edward Herbert LeesFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Alfred Newton HarrisFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
John DrewFellow
George Ogden AbellFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Charles BurckhalterFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Kenneth Frank BowdenFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Bt David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern- SalomonsFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Martin Christopher JohnsonFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William GilesFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
William Frederick DenningFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Mark AndersonFellow
Michael Philip CandyFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
John WoodrowFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Ernest William BrownFellow
Lt Col. George Lyon TupmanFellow
Rev. William SmithFellow
Arthur Laidlaw SelbyFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Frank McCleanFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Thomas Rudolphus DallmeyerFellow
John Louis Emil DreyerFellow
Francis BailyFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
Clarence Augustus ChantFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow