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
William GalbraithFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
John RamageFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Edward John DentFellow
James John DownesFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Samuel CourtauldFellow
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
John RowbothamFellow
William SimmsFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
William BrookeFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Henry George BohnFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Thomas GallowayFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
George FrostFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
William GilesFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
William LassellFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
William Henry PalmerFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
George CreaserFellow
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate