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
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Marie Alfred CornuAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
William CotterellFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
George Parker BidderFellow
Henry Osmund BarnardFellow
Selig BrodetskyFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Antony HewishFellow
Edward WeldonFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Ignazio Nicolas DracopoliFellow
John Jepson AtkinsonFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
John ColesFellow
Baron Edmund Beckett (Grimthorpe)Fellow
Richard Henry BulkeleyFellow
John WilliamsFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow