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
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur AuwersAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Carl Theodor AlbrechtAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Wilhelm Heinrich Walter BaadeAssociate
Charles Augustus YoungAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Julius BartelsAssociate
Charles Joseph C1728‰tienne WolfAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
(Johann) Rudolf WolfAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Ernest Benjamin EsclangonAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelAssociate
Hermann Carl VogelAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Nils Christofer DunérAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Hans Georg KienleAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Hannes Olof Gösta AlfvénAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Maurice LoewyAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Giovanni CeloriaAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
(Carl Hermann) Gustav MüllerAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
John Derby AllcroftFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Philip Edward SewellFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Louis Melville Milne-ThomsonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Arthur William LongFellow
Edmund Sewall MansonFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Harry ElliotFellow
Chester Burleigh WattsFellow
Inigo Owen JonesFellow
Sir David GillFellow
Carlton John LambertFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Rev. Martin DavidsonFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
John Russell HindFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
William EssonFellow
William Sadler FranksFellow
William SimmsFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
Rolf MüllerFellow
William OttwayFellow
Martin Rastall Coulter McDowellFellow
Edward Turner WhitelowFellow
William Ralph MechaelisFellow
Rev. Thomas Robert TerryFellow
John Henry III WaddellFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
William LethbridgeFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
George Frederick DodwellFellow