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
Herman SchultzAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Albrecht Otto Johannes UnsöldAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Anders Severin DonnerAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Julius Heinrich G. FranzAssociate
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Palm Henry Lewis Pruss von BoguslawskiAssociate
Harold Clayton UreyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Theodor Alexandrovitch BredichinAssociate
Joseph von FraunhoferAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
James Edward KeelerAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Georges LecointeAssociate
Daniel Alberto ValencioAssociate
Svante Elis StrömgrenAssociate
Lewis Morris RutherfurdAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav SpörerAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Charles Eugène DelaunayAssociate
Heber Doust CurtisAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Carl BremikerAssociate
Jean Charles Rodolphe RadauAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Eugène Joseph DelporteAssociate
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Magnus NyrénAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Carl Theodor Robert LutherAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Carl Christian BruhnsAssociate
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Gerald Maurice ClemenceAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Robert Grant AitkenAssociate
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Sir Charles Tilston BrightFellow
Archibald William Tindall-LucasFellow
Rev. Theodore Evelyn Reece PhillipsFellow
Dr Reginald Lawson WaterfieldFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
William Ford Robinson StanleyFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Mary Acworth Evershed [née Orr]Fellow
Sir David GillFellow
Joseph GwiltFellow
Willem Jacob LuytenFellow
John MathesonFellow
Reginald Carter NelsonFellow
Chev. François de RosazFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Benjamin ScottFellow
Rev. Frederick Clare LeesFellow
William CotterellFellow
Denis Wardlaw BeggsFellow
Perry ByerlyFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Sir David BruntFellow
Henry Martyn TaylorFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
John Merrill PoorFellow
Rev. Maurice Allen SmeltFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
Rev. John EdwardsFellow
Spencer Lavington FletcherFellow
Sir Bernard LovellFellow
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Bertrand John HarrisFellow
Maj. Percy Alexander MacMahonFellow
Dr James Adey OgleFellow
S. Lynn RhorerFellow
Richard JohnsonFellow
Donald Harry SadlerFellow
Francis BarrowFellow
James CavanFellow