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
Alan MoorwoodFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Peter David MarshallFellow
Allan R. SandageFellow
Peter D. HingleyStaff
Wallace Leslie William SargentFellow
Leon Knopoff
Steve RawlingsFellow
C Andrew MurrayFellow
Vera C RubinFellow
Professor Donald BlackwellFellow
Jack Meadows
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Sir James SouthFellow
George DollondFellow
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Sir Edward RyanFellow
Joshua KingFellow
Arthur BailyFellow
Daniel MooreFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
John PondFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Charles BabbageFellow
Rev. George Burgess WildigFellow
Bt John Frederick William HerschelFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Rev. George PeacockFellow
William WallaceFellow
William CaryFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Robert StevensonFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Rev. Michael WardFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
William AllenFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Rev. Thomas CattonFellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Capt. Basil HallFellow
Dr John BostockFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Rev. Miles BlandFellow
R-A Sir John RossFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Rev. William WhewellFellow
William Chadwell MylneFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Gerard MollAssociate
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Adm. William Henry SmythFellow
Richard BestFellow
Rev. John Phillips HigmanFellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
John FullerFellow
Thomas Ignatius Maria ForsterFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Jean Alfred GautierAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Rev. Lewis EvansFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
Carlo BrioschiAssociate
Charles HuttonFellow
Sir Rowland HillFellow
Rev. Henry CoddingtonFellow
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow
Col William LambtonFellow