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
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Michael KamienskiAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Jon DariusFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
John Robert Fisher JeffreysFellow
Edward Ball KnobelFellow
Warin Foster BushellFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Cecil Reginald BurchFellow
Rev. Andrew HendersonFellow
Charles HorsleyFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Sir William de Wiveleslie AbneyFellow
Henry Frederick BakerFellow
Edwin Bailey ElliottFellow
Bt Henry ThompsonFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Charles StewartFellow
John Paul CoxFellow
Charles Robert d’EsterreFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Shunichi KawasakiFellow
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
William Edgar GeilFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
John GriggFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Jan van der BiltFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow