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. Robert MainFellow
Rev. James BoothFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
George Venables VernonFellow
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Eduard HeisAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Carl BremikerAssociate
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
George Walter RobertsFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Charles Hartwell Horne CheyneFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Lt-Col. Alexander StrangeFellow
Lieut. Cyril CorbetFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Anne SheepshanksHonorary Fellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Murray GladstoneFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Carl Ludwig Christian BeckerFellow
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
John WilliamsFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Thomas William BurrFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Frank RobertsonFellow
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Bt David SalomonsFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
William MannFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Richard HodgsonFellow
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
William RutherfordFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Augustus De MorganFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Charles MasonFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
John JenkinsFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Charles HowellFellow
James John DownesFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Sir James SouthFellow