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
Leon Knopoff
Steve RawlingsFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Jack Meadows
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Peter D. HingleyStaff
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
John PondFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
George DollondFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
William CaryFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
William WallaceFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
William AllenFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
William Chadwell MylneFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Richard BestFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
John FullerFellow
Jean François AragoAssociate
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Edward RiddleFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Charles HuttonFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Col William LambtonFellow