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
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Charles Dillon PerrineAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Frank N., Jr EdmondsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Jay PasachoffFellow
Harry Edwin WoodFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
John Peter George SmithFellow
Ambrose SwaseyFellow
Earl Laurence Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
George Carter PulsfordFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Bn Sir William Kelvin (Thomson)Fellow
Thomas LeeFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Bt Cyril C. GrahamFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Joseph H. FreemanFellow
Ralph Hamilton CurtissFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Alan DouglasFellow
James CampbellFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Uco van WijkFellow
Fritz ZwickyFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow