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
Antonio CollaAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Rev. James BoothFellow
John WaterhouseFellow
Alexander Dallas BacheAssociate
William GravattFellow
Augustus De MorganFellow
Arthur Kett BarclayFellow
Isambard Kingdom BrunelFellow
Rev. William SelwynFellow
Eduard HeisAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
John Chapman HartnupFellow
Johann von [John] LamontAssociate
William FrostFellow
Sir William Rowan HamiltonFellow
M-Gen. John Theophilus BoileauFellow
Manuel John JohnsonFellow
Francis (Francesco) de VicoAssociate
Robert Arthur GrahamFellow
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
James Sweetman EiffeFellow
Thomas TurnerFellow
Thomas Glanville TaylorFellow
John HippisleyFellow
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
William Radcliff BirtFellow
Lt-G Sir William Thomas DenisonFellow
Gen. Sir Henry Drury HarnessFellow
Carl BremikerAssociate
James Whatman BosanquetFellow
John Pringle NicholFellow
Frederick Walter SimmsFellow
Rev. James ChallisFellow
Robert StephensonFellow
Charles Orchard DaymanFellow
Bt John William LubbockFellow
Baron Fabian Jacob WredeAssociate
Hermann GoldschmidtAssociate
George CreaserFellow
Rev. James EdmonstoneFellow
Gen. Edward Charles FromeFellow
Rev. Samuel Wilkes WaudFellow
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Samuel Elsworth CottamFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Karl Friedrich KnorreAssociate
Henry PerigalFellow
William Henry PalmerFellow
Otto August RosenbergerAssociate
M-Gen. Robert ShortredeFellow
Earl William Rosse (Parsons)Fellow
Earl William Parsons (Rosse)Fellow
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
William Henry Fox TalbotFellow
Andrew YeatesFellow
Adm. Russell Henry MannersFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
R-Adm. John WashingtonFellow
William LassellFellow
John Obadiah Newell RutterFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Rev. Dr William Rutter DawesFellow
Adm. Sir Edward BelcherFellow
William GilesFellow
Thomas HendersonFellow
George FrostFellow
Maximilian Ritter von WeisseAssociate
Baron John WrottesleyFellow
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Joshua KingFellow
Bt David SalomonsFellow
John WilliamsFellow
Capt. Thomas DrummondFellow
James Scott BowerbankFellow
Hugh Lee PattinsonFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
Joseph BonomiFellow
Rev. Baden PowellFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
R-Adm. Frederick William BeecheyFellow
Samuel Charles WhitbreadFellow
Henry George BohnFellow
Peter Andreas HansenAssociate
Sir Rowland HillFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
William BrookeFellow
Count Philippe Gustave Doulcet PontécoulantAssociate
Adm. Henry Wolsey BayfieldFellow
Rev. Temple ChevallierFellow
M-Gen. Joseph Ellison PortlockFellow
Rev. James Collett EbdenFellow
Rev. George FisherFellow
Rev. Richard SheepshanksFellow
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Rev. William WhewellFellow
Rev. Henry Parr HamiltonFellow
Sir Thomas MaclearFellow