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
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Edmund WeissAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
John BastinFellow
Fiammetta Wilson [née Worthington]Fellow
Anne Barbara UnderhillFellow
Ernest TillotsonFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Christopher John SkinnerFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Isaac RobertsFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jesse Scoffin NimkeyFellow
Henry Curwen LordFellow
John MarshallFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Col. John HerschelFellow
Thomas Charlton HudsonFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
George Hall HamiltonFellow
Peter Howard FowlerFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow
Charles Frederick ButterworthFellow
John Atherton CleggFellow
Thomas Sanderson AngusFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Carlyle Smith BealsFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Jacob WernerFellow
Ernest Henry Charles WunderlichFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Carl Keenan SeyfertFellow
Rev. John SpenceFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Stanley Keith RuncornFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
James Dwyer McGeeFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Samuel Verplanck HoffmanFellow
John Conrad JaegerFellow
John Anderton GreenwoodFellow