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
Richard TaylorFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Sir William CubittFellow
John LeeFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
James PettitFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
John RamageFellow
John RowbothamFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
George BishopFellow
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
William SimmsFellow
George FrostFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Thomas HendersonFellow
William FrendFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Thomas TurnerFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
John NarrienFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow