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
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Ejnar HertzsprungAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Thomas LewisFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Rev. Thomas MackerethFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Francis (“Frank”) HoldenFellow
John James MellorFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
John ColesFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Lieut. Charles William BaillieFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
William LassellFellow
Francis Joseph HeydenFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Joseph Steel HughesFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Julie Marie Vinter HansenFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow