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
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Sir William MorisonFellow
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Antonio CollaAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
William Henry PalmerFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
John RiddleFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
John DrewFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
William WilsonFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Julius PageFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
John WaltonFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
John GlaisherFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
John Russell HindFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate
William GravattFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
John JenkinsFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Col. William YollandFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
William LassellFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Peter ClareFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
James EppsFellow