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
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
William FrostFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
James John DownesFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
George InnesFellow
James LockhartFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Charles MayFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
William ScottFellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Henry HarveyFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
John NarrienFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
William FrendFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
George FrostFellow
William SimmsFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
George BishopFellow
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow