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
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Bryan DonkinFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Richard BestFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
James LockhartFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
William CaryFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
William FrendFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
John FullerFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Alan James SkinnerFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Col. George StrahanFellow
Edwin Thomas HoldawayFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Henry Addenbrook WassellFellow
Charles James WestlandFellow
Edward Tremlett CarterFellow
Burdett MasonFellow
Frederick Richard CrippsFellow
Anil Kumar DasFellow
James EppsFellow
John Johnston RossFellow
Arthur HandsFellow
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Dr Edmund Johnson SpittaFellow
Edward Rupert HicksFellow
Dr Robert BallardFellow
Walter Ernest BesleyFellow
Maj. John CassellsFellow
Rt Hon Edward Henry CooperFellow
Johannes GeissHonorary Fellow
Rudolph MoritzFellow
Albert EscottFellow
Alfred Henry FisonFellow
John RiddleFellow
Walter GoodacreFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
George HuntFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Rev. Thomas Henry LealeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Rev. Paul A. McNallyFellow
Cecil Goodrich Julius DolmageFellow
Edward CrossleyFellow
Walter MossFellow
Frederic NewtonFellow
James George PetrieFellow
John PondFellow
John StanistreetFellow
John Alexander ArmstrongFellow
Benjamin John HopkinsFellow
Stefan TemesváryFellow
Joseph BeckFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Lt-Col. Bertram Francis Eardley KeelingFellow
John BrittainFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Rev. Edmund LedgerFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Jesse YoungFellow
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
Rev. Edmund Sixtus PhillipsFellow
Canon David FlemingFellow
William Bolger GibbsFellow
Cntss Maria Victoria Vicenta de RivasFellow
Sandford GortonFellow
Sir Howard GrubbFellow