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
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
William Grasett ThackerayFellow
Edward Bruce Herschel WadeFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Harlan True StetsonFellow
Edward Henry RichesFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
William NewboldFellow
Capt. Arthur Lister-KayeFellow
Neal McNeillFellow
Richard Elliott JenningsFellow
Clarisse Doris HellmanFellow
Maures HornerFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Arthur Henry BagnoldFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
David MossFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Julien John Stanislous TripplinFellow
Rev. William Robert Maurice WaughFellow
Harlan James SmithFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Antoni PrzybylskiFellow
Walter MossFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Norman Graham MatthewFellow
Ernest William Frown KeevilFellow
M-Gen. Henry Herbert LeeFellow