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
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Col. Sir George EverestFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Thomas DonkinFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Johann Franz EnckeAssociate
John LeeFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Thomas NorrisFellow
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Capt. Henry FosterFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Giovanni Sante Gaspero SantiniAssociate
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
James PettitFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Rev. Henry Joseph Boone NicholsonFellow
Capt. William Samuel StratfordFellow
William Henry FittonFellow
Capt. Thomas GravesFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Capt. Pringle StokesFellow
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
John RamageFellow
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
John RowbothamFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Mqs John Crichton Stuart (Bute)Fellow
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Col. Frederick PageFellow
Rev. Philip HuntFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
Charles Blacker VignolesFellow
Peter BarlowFellow
Cmdr. James WolfeFellow
John Lewis(Johann Ludwig) TiarksFellow
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Lieut. Henry RaperFellow
George BishopFellow
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Bt David SalomonsFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
Rev. (John) Thomas Romney RobinsonFellow
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Capt. John BethamFellow
William SimmsFellow
William Charles CoxFellow
Rev. James InmanFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Major Thomas Henry Shadwell ClerkeFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin(Dunraven)Fellow
George FrostFellow
Earl Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham Quin (Dunraven)Fellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
William Devonshire SaullFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Cmdr. Michael Atwell SlaterFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Thomas HendersonFellow
William FrendFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Thomas TurnerFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Charles HoodFellow
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Richard AbbattFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
John NarrienFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow