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
William SimmsFellow
John RowbothamFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles BabbageFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Rev. George PeacockFellow
James John DownesFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
John RamageFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
William Charles CoxFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
George BishopFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Gerard MollAssociate
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Joseph GwiltFellow
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
John LeeFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Francisco CarliniAssociate
John DickinsonFellow
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Richard TaylorFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
William Henry FittonFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Henry LawsonFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
George DollondFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Robert StevensonFellow