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
Robert PeeblesFellow
Arthur Robert WesleyFellow
David Carder-DaviesFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Claude de la Cherois CrommelinFellow
Roland Dale ThompsonFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Rev. Jacobus Cornelius ReynekeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Ross Walter MarriottFellow
Lorna Mary SwainFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
Sir Ralph Howard FowlerFellow
Anne Sewell YoungFellow
Jason John NassauFellow
John Henry HindleFellow
Charles Stuart CushingFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Francis Preserved LeavenworthFellow
John Anthony MillerFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Caroline Ellen FurnessFellow
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Peter DoigFellow
Thomas Herbert Le Sbirel HonyFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Charles Edward Kenneth MeesFellow
Rev. Henry John WilkinsFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Jan, Jr WoltjerFellow
William John ThorrowgoodFellow
Christopher Clive Langton GregoryFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
William Michael Herbert GreavesFellow
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Dr Edward Osborne FountainFellow
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Donald Luther EdwardsFellow
Robert StoneleyFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
George MorhamFellow
Edward Arthur MilneFellow
Arthur Everard LevinFellow
William Cunliffe MargerisonFellow
Thomas Luther EvansFellow
Rev. James Peter RowlandFellow
Cmdr John Archibald Rupert-JonesFellow
John Stefanos ParaskevopoulosFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Rev. George Stewart HitchcockFellow
Thomas AllisonFellow
Joseph ProudmanFellow
Gerald MertonFellow
William PorthouseFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
Harold William NewtonFellow
James Garton BowerFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Clement Osborn BartrumFellow
Sidney Bertram GaythorpeFellow
Ralph Emerson DeLuryFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
John Stanley PlaskettFellow
Leslie John ComrieFellow
Sir Charles Galton DarwinFellow
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
Harry Hemley PlaskettFellow
Edward PrenticeFellow
Sir William Napier ShawFellow
Sir Henry Percy DouglasFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Henry Reginald FryFellow
Rev. Walter A. MátosFellow
Walter Robert StokesFellow
Sidney Batt MatteyFellow
Theralandoor Panchapagesa BhaskaranFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Sir Horace LambFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow