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
Rev. Paul Wynyard FaircloughFellow
John FullerFellow
Sir George Howard DarwinFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
John TebbuttFellow
Josias Edward de VilliersFellow
Martin Charles SharpFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Lady Mary Thomazine LockyerFellow
Henry MannFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Philibert Jacques MelotteFellow
John NarrienFellow
Rev. Thomas RosebyFellow
James Lidderdale ScottFellow
Charles William Dyson PerrinsFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
George ForbesFellow
George CreaserFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Herbert DingleFellow
Sir James CockleFellow
Algernon Charles GiffordFellow
Hon. Lionel George William GuestFellow
Rev. Francis Benjamin AllisonFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Herbert Gerard TomkinsFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
William Marshall SmartFellow
Arthur Robert HinksFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Hector Munro MacdonaldFellow
Baron Somerset Henry Maxwell (Farnham)Fellow
William Lionel Edgar BennettFellow
Russ EvansFellow
John Marsh WilcoxFellow
Philip C KeenanFellow
John Harvey JonesFellow
Alfred Ernest MooreFellow
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Herbert SadlerFellow
William Alfred ParrFellow
Henry Crozier Keating PlummerFellow
Charles Gaskell FalknerFellow
Thomas Frederick FurberFellow
Maj. Leonard DarwinFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Eugen von GothardFellow
Cleveland AbbeFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Eber Jachin SharpeFellow
William Henry HennahFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Sydney Samuel HoughFellow
William James Stewart LockyerFellow
Robert James MannFellow
John BrowningFellow
Barbara BromageFellow
Capt. Hugh Montague WoodFellow
Thomas KingFellow
Otto StruveFellow, later Associate
Shin HirayamaFellow, later Associate
Guillermo HaroFellow, later Associate
Bartholomeus (Bart) Jan BokFellow, later Associate
Charles Edward St. JohnFellow, later Associate
Ian AxfordFellow, later Associate
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharFellow, later Associate
Andrew David ThackerayFellow, later Associate
Cecilia Helena Payne-GaposchkinFellow, later Associate
Patrick Arthur WaymanFellow, later Associate
Edwin Powell HubbleFellow, later Associate
Manali Kallat Vainu BappuFellow, later Associate
Polydore (Pol) Félix Ferdinand SwingsFellow, later Associate
Sherburne Wesley BurnhamFellow, later Associate
Willy HartnerFellow, later Associate
William Alfred FowlerFellow, later Associate
Jan Hendrik OortFellow, later Associate
Knut Emil LundmarkFellow, later Associate
Stephan MuellerFellow, later Associate
Edward Emerson BarnardFellow, later Associate
Walter Sydney AdamsFellow, later Associate
Edith Alice MüllerFellow, later Associate
Olaf PedersenFellow, later Associate
Robert Raynolds McMathFellow, later Associate
Bohdan PaczyńskiFellow, later Associate
Francis BirchFellow, later Associate