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
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Alan HunterFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow
Noel Bryan SlaterFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Jean (John) VerhoogenFellow
Kenneth Charles BlackwellFellow
Reginald Victor JonesFellow
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Harley Weston WoodFellow
Samuel HerrickFellow
Charles Gorrie WynneFellow
Raymond Arthur LyttletonFellow
Benjamin Chapman BrowneFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Paris Marie Pismis de RecillasFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
John (‘Jack’) Hobart PiddingtonFellow
Valdemar Axel FirsoffFellow
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Gabriel Gideon` CilliéFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Stefan Leon PiotrowskiFellow
Andrew McKellarFellow
Lt.-Col. Edgar Hynes ThompsonFellow
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Jaakko Vilhelmi TuominenFellow
Mervyn Archdall EllisonFellow
James Stanley HeyFellow
Adriaan Jan WesselinkFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Henry Rainsford HulmeFellow
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Manuel Gonçalves Pereira de BarrosFellow
Sir Harrie Stewart Wilson MasseyFellow
Joseph Lade PawseyFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
Ida Winifred BusbridgeFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Sir Edward Crisp BullardFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Vicenzo Consolato Antonino FerraroFellow
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Eric Mervyn LindsayFellow
Govind Padmanabha RaoFellow
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Jeffrey Charles Percy MillerFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Akbar AliFellow
Keith Edward BullenFellow
Charles Vivian JacksonFellow
Thomas George CowlingFellow
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Sir Richard van der Riet WoolleyFellow
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Evan Gwyn WilliamsFellow
Roderick Oliver RedmanFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
Edward Hubert LinfootFellow
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Reginald William Blake PearseFellow
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
Clabon Walter AllenFellow
Sir William Hunter McCreaFellow
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
George Cunliffe McVittieFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Alan FletcherFellow
Arthur Robert HoggFellow
Edward Howard CollinsonFellow
John Eric BullardFellow
Charles Hugh SmileyFellow
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Alan William James CousinsFellow
Lady Bertha Swirles JeffreysFellow
Sydney Royston PikeFellow
Frank George Griffith CarrFellow
Donald Ross BrownFellow
John Philip Manning PrenticeFellow
Lydia Alberta BrownFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Howard Percy RobertsonFellow
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Paul Adrien Maurice DiracFellow
Angus ArmitageFellow
Charles Edward Rhodes BruceFellow
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate