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. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
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
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
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
Alfred WhiteFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
John WaltonFellow
Julius PageFellow
John WilliamsFellow
William WilsonFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
John GlaisherFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
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
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Col. William YollandFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
William LassellFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Peter ClareFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow