Previous Honorary Members

R G Williams OBE

Former Secretary of the National Institute of Oceanography at Wormley and former Treasurer of the Challenger Society for Marine Science from 1956 - 1973. Sadly, Ray died in January of 2016 aged 92.
Ray Williams played a key role in managing the Institute’s  finances and most notable in managing the funding the construction of the new (1962)  RRS Discovery.


 1987

• Prof RI Currie

1977

• Commander WJ Copenhagen

1973

• Sir George Edward Raven Deacon FRS 1906-1984 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1985 vol 31 pp 111-142)
• Dr Cyril Lucas, biography
• Sir Frederick Stratten Russell FRS 1897-1984 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1986 vol 32 pp 461-493)

1966

• JN Carruthers

1964

• HO Bull

1958

• Eric Henry Edwardes Havelock CB, CBE, OBE, FRSE

1957

• Joseph Proudman FRS 1888-1975 (Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1976 vol 22 pp 319-333)

1951

• William Thomas Calman FRS 1871-1952 (Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 355-372) HU Sverdrup

1950

• GP Bidder

1948

• Dr HR Mill
• Mr HG Maurice

1939

• Edgar Johnson Allen FRS 1866-1942 (Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 357-367)
• HB Bigelow, biography
• E le Danois
• G Gilson
• B Helland-Hansen
• O Pettersson
• G Schott

1929

• Schmidt
• Swire (last surviving member of officers and scientific staff of HMS Challenger)

1923

• Dr Johan Hjort FRS 1869-1948 (Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1950-1951 vol 7 pp 167-181)

1915

• Prof Georg Ossian Sars

1910

• H.S.H. The Prince of Monaco

1905

• Prof Dr Karl Brandt
• Prof Dr Carl Chun
• Prof Max Wilhelm Carl Weber FRS 1852-1937 (Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1936-1938 vol 2 pp 347-355)