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
William Marshall SmartFellow
Robert John PocockFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
William (‘Will’) Thomson HayFellow
Michael Stephanovitch KovalenkoFellow
Ernest Reginald BryanFellow
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Rev. Hector Copland MacphersonFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Sydney ChapmanFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
John JacksonFellow
George Henry LivensFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
William Francis Herschel WaterfieldFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Richard Thomas CullenFellow
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Harold Knox-ShawFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
John Edensor LittlewoodFellow
Erwin Finlay-FreundlichFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Algernon Montagu NewbeginFellow
Frank Maurice HolbornFellow
Thomas RoydsFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Alexander David RossFellow
Capt. George Joseph WeldrickFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Sir Arthur Stanley EddingtonFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Charles William JeffriesFellow
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Peter DoigFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Alphonso KingFellow
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Ethel Frances Butwell BellamyFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
George Ridsdale GoldsbroughFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
William Moses FeldmanFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Georges Achille Van BiesbroeckFellow
Duncan McLaren Young SommervilleFellow
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Montagu Austin PhillipsFellow
Walter Geoffrey DuffieldFellow
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus VoûteFellow
James Duncan McNeileFellow
William Moody WitchellFellow
Robert Morrison AbrahamFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Robert Meldrum StewartFellow
Wladyslaw DziewulskiFellow
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
William NewboldFellow
William PorthouseFellow
George Clyde FisherFellow
Philip FoxFellow
Arthur Grant StillhamerFellow
Henry Norris RussellFellow, later Associate
Sir James Hopwood JeansFellow
Godfrey Harold HardyFellow
John Granville HawkeFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
William Edward RolstonFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
Francis John Welsh WhippleFellow
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Sir Francis Kennedy McCleanFellow