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
Mark Bernard Brewer HeathFellow
Henry Park HollisFellow
John Edward GeakeFellow
Idwal Owain GriffithFellow
Ambrose T. FlaggFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Rev. James Law ChallisFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
William BullerwellFellow
Józef WitkowskiFellow
Michael SeatonFellow
Samuel TolanskyFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Frederick William WatkinFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
David SmartFellow
Baron Robert John Strutt (Rayleigh)Fellow
Thomas RobsonFellow
Dudley Stewart PerfectFellow
Albert Thomas PriceFellow
Daniel Walter MorehouseFellow
Rev. Edward Dominic O’ConnorFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
John James Lewis GoodridgeFellow
George Alfred HardingFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Eric DoolittleFellow
George CalverFellow
John Morton BillingFellow
William Robert BrooksFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Henry Bridger AdamesFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Thomas Glazebrook RylandsFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Willie Venner MerrifieldFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
David Nelson LimberFellow
Bn John McLarenFellow
Hamilton Moore JeffersFellow
Sir George Handley KnibbsFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Murray GeddesFellow
John Edwards GriffithFellow
Capt. Charles EddieFellow
Camille FlammarionFellow
James de Graaff-HunterFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Kenneth BulloughFellow
Alan S RodgerFellow
Bernard PagelFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Charles AnthonyFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Rev. Henry RoeFellow
Julien PéridierFellow
Rev. Bartholomew PriceFellow
John MorganFellow
James OddieFellow
Charles MasonFellow
John LaverFellow
Maximilian (‘Max’) Franz Joseph Cornelius WolfFellow, later Associate
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Herman ZanstraFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
William Maurice EwingFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Olin Jeuck EggenFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
William Snyder EichelbergerFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Harold Delos BabcockFellow, later Associate
Inge LehmannFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate