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)
Name | Born | Died | Elected | Membership status |
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Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane | Fellow | |||
Robert Stevenson | Fellow | |||
Capt. James Horsburgh | Fellow | |||
Rev. Michael Ward | Fellow | |||
Rev. Fearon Fallows | Fellow | |||
Baron John Wrottesley | Fellow | |||
George Dollond | Fellow | |||
Edward Troughton | Fellow | |||
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick Colby | Fellow | |||
Henry Thomas Colebrooke | Fellow | |||
Joshua King | Fellow | |||
Sir Edward Ryan | Fellow | |||
Daniel Moore | Fellow | |||
Arthur Baily | Fellow | |||
Thomas Leybourn | Fellow | |||
John Pond | Fellow | |||
Stephen Groombridge | Fellow | |||
Rev. George Burgess Wildig | Fellow | |||
Rev. William Pearson | Fellow | |||
Davies Gilbert | Fellow | |||
Charles Babbage | Fellow | |||
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas | Fellow | |||
Bt John Frederick William Herschel | Fellow | |||
Francis Baily | Fellow | |||
Sir James South | Fellow | |||
Thomas Jones | Fellow | |||
Sir (Frederick) William Herschel | Fellow | |||
Allan R. Sandage | Fellow | |||
Peter D. Hingley | Staff | |||
Wallace Leslie William Sargent | Fellow | |||
Leon Knopoff | ||||
Steve Rawlings | Fellow | |||
C Andrew Murray | Fellow | |||
Vera C Rubin | Fellow | |||
Professor Donald Blackwell | Fellow | |||
Jack Meadows | ||||
Alan Moorwood | Fellow | |||
Sir Bernard Lovell | Fellow | |||
Peter David Marshall | Fellow |