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
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Carl BremikerAssociate
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Joseph BonomiFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
John MathesonFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
George CreaserFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Henry MannFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
William LassellFellow
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
William Henry HennahFellow
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Robert Charles MayFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Julius PageFellow
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate