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
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Brian JacobAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
William Henry PickeringAssociate
Hisashi KimuraAssociate
Gen. Gustave-Auguste FerriéAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Frank SchlesingerAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Johan Oskar BacklundAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
Eduard SchönfeldAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Robert EmdenAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Richard SchorrAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Wilhelm DöllenAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jens Frederik Wilhelm SchroeterAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Charles Alexander ShainFellow
Henry John SpoonerFellow
Edward George BowenFellow
Baron Robert John Rayleigh (Strutt)Fellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Rev. Harold PainFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Joseph KleiberFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Edward GayFellow
Percy Lyall Hooker DavisFellow
Sir Frank Watson DysonFellow
Arthur CayleyFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow
Beatrice Muriel Hill TinsleyFellow
M-Gen. James WaterhouseFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
George BishopFellow
Herbert BrownFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
William AllenFellow
Sir John PenderFellow
Thomas BauchopeFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Rhishard Llewellyn JonesFellow
George Darley LardnerFellow