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
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
John Valentine JelleyFellow
Charles Lum DrakeFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Patrick Brendan ByrneJunior Member
Hubert GentFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Donald F. TrombinoFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Kashinath NandyFellow
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
William (‘Bill’) L. MartinFellow
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Philip Walford HillFellow
Rebecca Anne Wood ElsonFellow
Alan David JohnstoneFellow
John Edward KennedyFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Dennis William Siahou SciamaFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Keith Colin SmithFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Frank John KerrFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Richard Charles Maurice LearnerFellow
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Fred Hoyle Fellow
Brian JacobAssociate
J Mayo GreenbergFellow
Robert Hanbury BrownFellow
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Phil J S WilliamsFellow
Raymond E WhiteFellow
David Stanley EvansFellow
Peter Alan SweetFellow
Richard Quentin TwissFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Michael SeatonFellow
Bernard PagelFellow
Arthur C ClarkeFellow
Philip James MessageFellow
Anthony Patrick FairallHonorary Fellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Tim HawardenFellow
Henry Ivison Shipley ThirlawayFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
John Edward DysonFellow
Kenneth Harold OlsenFellow
Churisho HayashiHonorary Fellow
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
John GriffithsFellow
Douglas Walter Noble StibbsFellow
Audouin Charles DollfusHonorary Fellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Leon Knopoff
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Mike CrippsFellow
Andy BreenFellow
Steve RawlingsFellow
Peter D. HingleyStaff
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
David W. DewhirstFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Margherita HackHonorary Fellow
Raynor L DuncombeFellow
Albert FAL JonesFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Colin PillingerFellow
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Russ EvansFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
Alexander DalgarnoFellow
James Wynne DungeyFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rodney Deane DaviesFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Sir Harry KrotoHonorary Fellow