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)
Name | Born | Died | Elected | Membership status |
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Capt. James Horsburgh | Fellow | |||
William Wallace | Fellow | |||
Rev. Fearon Fallows | Fellow | |||
Benjamin Gompertz | Fellow | |||
Robert Stevenson | Fellow | |||
Rev. Michael Ward | Fellow | |||
Sir James South | Fellow | |||
Joshua King | Fellow | |||
Sir Edward Ryan | Fellow | |||
Arthur Baily | Fellow | |||
Daniel Moore | Fellow | |||
Thomas Leybourn | Fellow | |||
Edward Troughton | Fellow | |||
John Pond | Fellow | |||
Stephen Groombridge | Fellow | |||
Rev. William Pearson | Fellow | |||
Davies Gilbert | Fellow | |||
Charles Babbage | Fellow | |||
Francis Baily | Fellow | |||
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas | Fellow | |||
Bt John Frederick William Herschel | Fellow | |||
Rev. George Burgess Wildig | Fellow | |||
Thomas Jones | Fellow | |||
Sir (Frederick) William Herschel | Fellow | |||
George Dollond | Fellow | |||
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick Colby | Fellow | |||
Henry Thomas Colebrooke | Fellow | |||
Alan Moorwood | Fellow | |||
Sir Bernard Lovell | Fellow | |||
Peter David Marshall | Fellow | |||
Allan R. Sandage | Fellow | |||
Peter D. Hingley | Staff | |||
Wallace Leslie William Sargent | Fellow | |||
Leon Knopoff | ||||
Steve Rawlings | Fellow | |||
C Andrew Murray | Fellow | |||
Vera C Rubin | Fellow | |||
Professor Donald Blackwell | Fellow | |||
Jack Meadows |