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
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Carl BremikerAssociate
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
John HippisleyFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
William FrostFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
William GravattFellow
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
John WaterhouseFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Frederick Robert HughesFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
James GlaisherFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
William TomlinsonFellow
John MorganFellow
Antoine Thomsond’ AbbadieFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Eddowes BowmanFellow
William T. RadfordFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
William RoxburghFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Robert Stirling NewallFellow
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Rev. Daniel AceFellow
Rev. Edward Lyon BerthonFellow
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Edwin ClarkFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
George WilliamsFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Robert RawsonFellow
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Warren De la RueFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
John Jenkins ColeFellow
Joseph BaxendellFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate