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
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
John RowbothamFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
John RamageFellow
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
James PettitFellow
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Charles ShearmanFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
John LeeFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Richard TaylorFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Col William LambtonFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Charles HuttonFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
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
Jean François AragoAssociate
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
John FullerFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Richard BestFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Gerard MollAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
William Chadwell MylneFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
William AllenFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
William CaryFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow