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
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
William Steadman AldisFellow
Charles BartonFellow
Mary Adela BlaggFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
Alexander Stewart HerschelFellow
Rev. Frederick HowlettFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Frank Campbell DumatFellow
William FrostFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Capt. Ernest William OwensFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Robert Rumsey WebbFellow
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
John MorganFellow
James OddieFellow
Walter George BellFellow
John Caister BennettFellow
Joseph Bevan BraithwaiteFellow
Arthur Edwin KennellyFellow
Arthur Ernest HodgsonFellow
Arthur Stanley WilliamsFellow
John JacksonFellow
Richard HillsFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Hugh Ernest ButlerFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Rev. S. Runsie CraigFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Henry EichbaumFellow
Alexander FooteFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow
Edward Walter MaunderFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Rev. George VenablesFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
John William AldridgeFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Walter Claude JohnsonFellow
L.Cdr (Humphrey) Derek HowseFellow
Elizabeth RoemerFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
John Leslie RuddFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Sir Patrick James FaganFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Georges LemaîtreFellow, later Associate
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Lyman, Jr. SpitzerFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Grigori Abramovich Shajn (Shayn)Fellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Charles Donald ShaneFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate