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