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
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
William FrostFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Henry George BohnFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
James McDowellFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
William LaddFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
John WatsonFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
David SmithFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
Robert James MannFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
John May WaldenFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Richard LaddFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Eduard LutherAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
John Benjamin DancerFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
Balfour StewartFellow
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Ole Peter MöllerFellow
Col. Arthur Swann Howard LoweFellow
Rev. Percival Alfred FothergillFellow
Richard Anthony ProctorFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
William CotterellFellow
John Rand CapronFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Warren De la RueFellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Harry Savile Ward EvansFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
George Francis RiddifordFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Charles HoodFellow
Rev. Stephen Joseph PerryFellow
Wentworth ErckFellow
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Harry TaylorFellow
Herman SchultzAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Henry PrattFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Thomas Henry HovendenFellow
Norman Robert PogsonFellow
John MerrifieldFellow
Edward Williams SnellFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Capt. William ChimmoFellow
Henry Lord BoultonFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Thomas LeeFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
Thomas Archer HirstFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
John HartnupFellow
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Ankitam Venkata Nursing RowFellow
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Charles BartonFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow