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