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
Francisco CarliniAssociate
John RiddleFellow
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
John WaltonFellow
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Capt. John HiggensFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Robert GrahamFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
George Phillips BondAssociate
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
William Corbett BurderFellow
John LeeFellow
Rev. William WhewellFellow
William GravattFellow
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
James BreenFellow
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
William BrookeFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
James John DownesFellow
Charles HowellFellow
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Thomas CookeFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
John JenkinsFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Eddowes BowmanFellow
Julien VertuFellow
Charles MasonFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Lieut. Thomas Carter Richardson CarpendaleFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WeareFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Capt. James Palladio BaseviFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Richard HodgsonFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Nathaniel BeardmoreFellow
Dr Benjamin GodfreyFellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Frederick Henry ElliottFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
John StanistreetFellow
William MannFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
John Robinson McCleanFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Giovan Battista DonatiAssociate
Frank RobertsonFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
William Charles CoxFellow
Thomas William BurrFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
John WilliamsFellow