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
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Bryan DonkinFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Richard BestFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
James LockhartFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
William CaryFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
William FrendFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
John FullerFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
William FrancisFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
William ScottFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
George James GibbsFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow