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
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Antonio CollaAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
William Henry PalmerFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Peter GrayFellow
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
John RiddleFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
John DrewFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Julius PageFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
John WaltonFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
John WilliamsFellow
William WilsonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
John GlaisherFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
John Russell HindFellow
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate
William GravattFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
John JenkinsFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
William LassellFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Edward John DentFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow