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
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
John RowbothamFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
John RamageFellow
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
James PettitFellow
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Charles ShearmanFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
John LeeFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Richard TaylorFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Charles HuttonFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
John FullerFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Richard BestFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
William Chadwell MylneFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
William AllenFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Robert StevensonFellow