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
Rev. Johann Georg HagenAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Willem de SitterAssociate
Antonio AbettiAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Mathieu Prosper HenryAssociate
Henri Alexandre DeslandresAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Pietro TacchiniAssociate
Jean DufayAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Paul Pierre HenryAssociate
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Jean Abraham Chrétien OudemansAssociate
Friedrich August Theodor WinneckeAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Virpi NiemelaAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Roger John TaylerFellow
Adriaan van MaanenFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Arthur Cowper RanyardFellow
George West Royston-PigottFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Heather CouperFellow
Valerie Patricia MyerscoughFellow
Dr William Evan McFarlaneFellow
Donald Alexander MacRaeFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
John Eric JacksonFellow
Samuel Morris GreenFellow
John HartnupFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Edward RobertsFellow
Sir William PeckFellow
Thomas Cunningham PorterFellow
Archibald Edmiston RoyFellow
Major Percy Braybrooke MolesworthFellow
Harry Krauss NieldFellow
Edward Fawcett WhiteFellow
Frederick William LongbottomFellow
Cyril YoungFellow
Col Ernest Elliott MarkwickFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Caroline Winifred HerschelFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
George Price Blackwood HallowesFellow