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
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Demetrius KotsakisFellow
Charles Lewis BrookFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Sidney Herbert PopeFellow
James RankinFellow
Samuel Forster GraceFellow
Colin Stanley GumFellow
Lady Mary Helena SaltounFellow
William Leslie Hazelwood ShuterFellow
John James AubertinFellow
Rev. Walter Edward StewartFellow
John Campbell BeggFellow
Richard Coward JohnsonFellow
Hugh WalshamFellow
Thomas WeirFellow
Hale WorthamFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
Laike AsfawFellow
Alfred Edward NichollsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Charles BartonFellow
George InnesFellow
Alfred Dillon BellFellow
Lieut. Hugh WilliamsFellow
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Charles MayFellow
John MitchellFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
James SimmsFellow
Elijah HowarthFellow
Margaret M. Bassett [née Allen]Staff
Dr William Ambrose KibblerFellow
William LaddFellow
Arthur BurnetFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Cyrus Augustus MacfarlaneFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
John Brise ColgroveFellow
John DrewFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
John GlaisherFellow
Herbert George RobinsFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow