Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Born	Died	Elected	Membership status
David Hughes	07-11-1941	06-06-2022	08-05-1992	Fellow
Valerie Patricia Myerscough	20-06-1942	08-11-1980	10-02-1967	Fellow
Tim Hawarden	24-12-1942	10-11-2009	09-01-1976	Fellow
Michael Victor Penston	17-02-1943	23-12-1990	10-02-1967	Fellow
Jay Pasachoff	01-07-1943	20-11-2022	14-01-1977	Fellow
Peter Molnar	25-08-1943	23-06-2022	09-05-1997	Fellow
Rev. David Emerson	01-09-1943	19-09-1996	14-02-1969	Fellow
Anthony Patrick Fairall	15-09-1943	24-11-2008	13-12-1968	Honorary Fellow
David Moss	08-11-1943	30-01-2020	14-02-1969	Fellow
Fred Taylor	24-09-1944	16-12-2021	10-07-1981	Fellow
Eigil Friis-Christensen	29-10-1944	21-09-2018	10-05-1996	Honorary Fellow
John Anthony Joseph Whelan	30-07-1945	21-12-1981	08-01-1971	Fellow
Richard Hills	30-09-1945	05-06-2022	13-05-1977	Fellow
Ann Savage	15-05-1946	09-01-2017	14-01-1972	Fellow
David Anthony Allen	30-07-1946	26-07-1994	08-01-1971	Fellow
John Campbell Brown	04-02-1947	16-11-2019	11-04-1969	Fellow
Colin Pillinger	09-05-1947	08-05-2014	14-01-1983	Fellow
Patrick Brendan Byrne	28-09-1947	16-09-1997	12-03-1971	Junior Member
Jon Darius	09-05-1948	12-07-1993	12-02-1971	Fellow
Barbara Bromage	10-12-1948	08-10-2022	09-03-2001	Fellow
Heather Couper	02-06-1949	19-02-2020	11-05-1973	Fellow
Russ Evans	24-10-1949	01-12-2014	14-04-1978	Fellow
Alan S Rodger	08-01-1951	03-01-2020	14-10-1977	Fellow
Paul Ruffle	22-02-1951	21-11-2013	14-02-2003	Fellow
Peter D. Hingley	06-10-1951	20-06-2012		Staff
John Griffiths	15-06-1952	09-04-2010	10-12-2004	Fellow
Neil Gehrels	03-10-1952	06-02-2017	01-01-2016	Honorary Fellow
John D. Barrow	29-11-1952	26-09-2020	08-01-1982	Fellow
Helen J Walker	02-01-1953	19-09-2017	14-01-1977	Fellow
David Carter	13-06-1953	22-05-2021	09-05-2008	Fellow
Michael J Thompson	30-01-1959	15-10-2018	13-01-2017	Honorary Fellow
Mike Cripps	20-07-1959	23-07-2011	10-12-2004	Fellow
Rebecca Anne Wood Elson	02-01-1960	19-05-1999	08-05-1987	Fellow
Steve Rawlings	11-10-1961	11-01-2012		Fellow
Bruce Swinyard	07-11-1962	22-05-2015	08-05-2009	Fellow
Christopher John Skinner	26-06-1963	21-10-1997	10-01-1986	Fellow
Andy Breen	06-04-1964	09-12-2011	12-07-1996	Fellow
Keith Colin Smith	23-02-1965	03-06-2000	13-03-1992	Fellow
Mark Anderson	12-02-1982		11-12-2020	Fellow