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
Thomas GaskinFellow
Alfred MorrisFellow
James Dyson PerrinsFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Peter GrayFellow
John May WaldenFellow
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Robert James MannFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
William Robert Stuart CallcottFellow
Charles George TalmageFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Edwin StoryFellow
William, Jr TomlinsonFellow
David SmithFellow
Capt. Sir Frederick John Owen EvansFellow
John WatsonFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
Col. Charles RatcliffFellow
Augustus S. HarrisonFellow
Joseph SidebothamFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
William LaddFellow
Nicholas MartindaleFellow
James McDowellFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Rev. Frederick SilverFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
William FrostFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Johann Friedrich Julius SchmidtAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
John Henry [Johann Heinrich] DallmeyerFellow
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman GodfreyFellow
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Julius PageFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Henry John Stephen SmithFellow
Thomas WarnerFellow
Charles Vincent WalkerFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Robert Charles MayFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
Edward Hamilton PringleFellow
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Charles Joseph CorbettFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
William Henry HennahFellow
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Henry William JeansFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Rev. Robert Comyn LumsdenFellow
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
William LassellFellow
Pierre Joseph Célestin BaumeFellow
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Chintamanny Ragoonatha Chary (Charry)Fellow
Rev. Henry Cooper KeyFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
John Edmund RichardFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Henry MannFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
George CreaserFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
William Kingdon CliffordFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
William Ricketts CooperFellow
John MathesonFellow
John Walter NicholFellow
Henry Morgan Earbery CroftonFellow
George Granado Graham Foster PigottFellow
Henry Samuel EllisFellow