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
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
John RiddleFellow
Adm. Sir Charles Frederick Alexander ShadwellFellow
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Peter GrayFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Rev. John SlatterFellow
Capt. Francis Price BlackwoodFellow
Edward Joseph LoweFellow
Thomas Corbyn JansonFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Richard HodgsonFellow
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin GoldschmidtAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Major Thomas Vallancey LysaghtFellow
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Pierre DaussyAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Antonio CollaAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Sir William MorisonFellow
Rev. Alfred WeldFellow
Rev. Athanasius Francis Diedrich WackerbarthFellow
Rev. John Newton PeillFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
William Cranch BondAssociate
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Thomas WeddleFellow
William BrookeFellow
Capt. William Thornton BateFellow
Rev. Charles PritchardFellow
William Garrow LettsomFellow
Isaac FletcherFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
John Fletcher MillerFellow
John Ashton NichollsFellow
John Thomas BarberFellow
John HippisleyFellow
Isaac Waithman LongFellow
Thomas HopkirkFellow
Isaac TodhunterFellow
Henry PerigalFellow
William Samuel DownesFellow
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Olinthus Gregory DownesFellow
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Bt Roderick Impey MurchisonFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Annibale de GasparisAssociate
William SimmsFellow
Isaac BrownFellow
Rev. Frederic William RussellFellow
Edward John CollingwoodFellow
Warren De la RueFellow
Richard Christopher CarringtonFellow
Rev. William Lake OnslowFellow
Dr Hugh NeillFellow
Richard DunkinFellow
William FrancisFellow
Lieut. St Andrew St. JohnFellow
Edward HughesFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
Rev. Thomas Allen SouthwoodFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
William SpottiswoodeFellow
John StanistreetFellow
Adm. Sir Erasmus OmmanneyFellow
George Venables VernonFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Rev. Isaac Vale MummeryFellow
William GilesFellow
Rev. Stephen ParkinsonFellow
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Thomas William BurrFellow
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Everard Home Roberts ColemanFellow
Antoine François Joseph Yvon VillarceauAssociate
William RoxburghFellow
Benjamin Dennison NaylorFellow
Rev. Robert HarleyFellow
Eyre Burton PowellFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Arthur Burnett MartinFellow
William Henry BesantFellow