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 David MarshallFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
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
Edward TroughtonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
George DollondFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
John PondFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
William CaryFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
William AllenFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Rev. William WhewellFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
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
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
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