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
Lieut. Hastings Fitz-Edward MurphyFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Rev. William Robinson GilbyFellow
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Rev. Robert MiddlemistFellow
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
William ScottFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Lt-Col. John JonesFellow
Charles MayFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Rev. Robert MainFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
James LockhartFellow
George InnesFellow
James John DownesFellow
Thomas GaskinFellow
Capt. William Stephen JacobFellow
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
John WaterhouseFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Capt. Owen StanleyFellow
William FrostFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
James EppsFellow
Edward John DentFellow
Peter ClareFellow
Frederik KaiserAssociate
William LassellFellow
Beriah BotfieldFellow
Sir Edward SabineFellow
Rev. William DealtryFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Col. William YollandFellow
King Christian VIII DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Henry William JeansFellow
William RutherfordFellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival GreeneFellow
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Capt. John Francis EgertonFellow
William GalbraithFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
James GlaisherFellow
Solomon Moses DrachFellow
Rev. Charles StrongFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Rev. Alfred WrigleyFellow
John JenkinsFellow
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
William Fishburn DonkinFellow
R-Adm. Henry Charles OtterFellow
Rev. John Eyre AshbyFellow
William GravattFellow
Emile PlantamourAssociate
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Gaetano CacciatoreAssociate
John Russell HindFellow
John George Cockburn Curtis GodsmanFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
John GlaisherFellow
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Edwin DunkinFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
John DickinsonFellow
Joseph Thomas CooperFellow
Thomas TaylorFellow
Alfred WhiteFellow
Philip James ChabotFellow
Thomas Reynolds WhiteFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Julius PageFellow
John WaltonFellow
John WilliamsFellow
William WilsonFellow
Robert GrahamFellow
Jacob HoyerFellow
John Couch AdamsFellow
John DrewFellow