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
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Julius BauschingerAssociate
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Giorgio AbettiAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Edward Singleton HoldenAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Viktor Amazaspovich AmbartsumianAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Andrei Borisovich SevernyAssociate
Gerhard MüllerAssociate
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Hendrik Gerard van de Sande BakhuyzenAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Cyrille Joseph SouillartAssociate
Samuel Pierpont LangleyAssociate
Didrik Magnus Axel MöllerAssociate
Milton Lasell HumasonAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Takesi NagataAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Marie Henri AndoyerAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
George Willis RitcheyAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Thaddeus BanachiewiczAssociate
Armin Otto LeuschnerAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Otto Hermann Leopold HeckmannAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Gunnar RandersFellow
William RoxburghFellow
William LassellFellow
David Bedell PickeringFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
R-Adm Charles Edward MonroFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Frederick John Marrian StrattonFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Adm. Sir William James Lloyd WhartonFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Otto HilgerFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Alan HunterFellow
Joseph Alfred HardcastleFellow
Maj. Arthur ffolliott GarrettFellow
Capt. Dudley Sydney Ashworth CosbyFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow
Capt. Reinold John JaugetFellow
Alexander William RobertsFellow
Francis Gladheim PeaseFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Alexander John Samuel AdamsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
John James MellorFellow
Vishnu Vasudev NarlikarFellow
Theodore MackenzieFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
William Henry BesantFellow
Charles Henry Brewitt-TaylorFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Rev. Thomas WiltshireFellow
John Louis PerdrixFellow