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
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
William GalbraithFellow
James PettitFellow
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Peter ClareFellow
James LockhartFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
George DollondFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
George FrostFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Henry HarveyFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
Jean François AragoAssociate
Thomas WeddleFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
William ScottFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Bryan DonkinFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
William GilesFellow
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Antonio CollaAssociate
Charles Heard WildFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
John DrewFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Rev. James InmanFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
John NarrienFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
William SimmsFellow
Charles MayFellow
William WilsonFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
George BishopFellow
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Sir William CubittFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Peter BarlowFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow