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
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Fritz CohnAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Daniel ChalongeAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Seth Carlo ChandlerAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
William Wallace CampbellAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Sir Edmund Taylor WhittakerFellow
Meade Lafayette ZimmerFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
William Henry OwstonFellow
William Montgomery PiersonFellow
John Johnson ShawFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Capt. John SteeleFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
John ColesFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Peter Yorke MillnsFellow
John NewtonFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
George Augustine TaylorFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Antonio Vela-HerranzFellow
Franz Daniel KahnFellow
Philip Stevenson LaurieFellow
James William GiffordFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
Rev. Henry Grattan GuinnessFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
John BastinFellow
Frank Bradshaw WoodFellow
Geoffrey Ronald BurbidgeFellow
Richard Evan DayFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Robert PeeblesFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Alfred Fish SmithFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Rev. Sherrard Beaumont BurnabyFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
William FrostFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow