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)
Name | Born | Died | Elected | Membership status |
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Benjamin Gompertz | Fellow | |||
Robert Stevenson | Fellow | |||
Rev. Michael Ward | Fellow | |||
Baron John Wrottesley | Fellow | |||
Rev. George Peacock | Fellow | |||
Duke Alexander Gordon | Fellow | |||
Rev. William Pearson | Fellow | |||
Davies Gilbert | Fellow | |||
Charles Babbage | Fellow | |||
Edward Troughton | Fellow | |||
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas | Fellow | |||
Bt John Frederick William Herschel | Fellow | |||
Francis Baily | Fellow | |||
Rev. George Burgess Wildig | Fellow | |||
Sir (Frederick) William Herschel | Fellow | |||
Thomas Jones | Fellow | |||
George Dollond | Fellow | |||
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick Colby | Fellow | |||
Henry Thomas Colebrooke | Fellow | |||
Sir Edward Ryan | Fellow | |||
Joshua King | Fellow | |||
Daniel Moore | Fellow | |||
Arthur Baily | Fellow | |||
Thomas Leybourn | Fellow | |||
Sir James South | Fellow | |||
John Pond | Fellow | |||
Stephen Groombridge | Fellow | |||
Peter David Marshall | Fellow | |||
Allan R. Sandage | Fellow | |||
Peter D. Hingley | Staff | |||
Wallace Leslie William Sargent | Fellow | |||
Leon Knopoff | ||||
Steve Rawlings | Fellow | |||
C Andrew Murray | Fellow | |||
Vera C Rubin | Fellow | |||
Professor Donald Blackwell | Fellow | |||
Jack Meadows | ||||
Alan Moorwood | Fellow | |||
Sir Bernard Lovell | Fellow |