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
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
William AllenFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
William WallaceFellow
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Bryan DonkinFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Richard BestFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
James LockhartFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
William CaryFellow
Rev. William FarishFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
William FrendFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
John FullerFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Sir (Frederick) William HerschelFellow
Charles HuttonFellow
Hester Periam HawkinsFellow
William Reynolds VinesFellow
Norman David WatkinsFellow
Thomas Simeon Scriven BoltonFellow
Donald MacleanFellow
Margaret Theodora MeyerFellow
William Bladen CroftFellow
Sir William MorisonFellow
William SmalleyFellow
Thomas Edward HeathFellow
Alfred HolnessFellow
Thomas HumphriesFellow
Rev. Francis Anthony TondorfFellow
Thomas Edward KnightleyFellow
Bishop John BrinkleyFellow
Arnold BuxtonFellow
Pietro CaturegliAssociate
Dudley KM FullerFellow
Richard Edward Synge CooperFellow
Rev. Peter David MorseFellow
Rev. Robert Prichard DaviesFellow
George James NewbeginFellow
Rev. Daniel DuttonFellow
William FrancisFellow
Edward RiddleFellow
Charles Bousfield ShawFellow
Henry Burdett HederstedtFellow
Frank Hope-JonesFellow
Joseph Gurney BarclayFellow
R-Adm Alexander Bridport BecherFellow
Rev. John William WhittakerFellow
Daniel BuckneyFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Lieut. George Beaver CroucherFellow
Kennet PollockFellow
Henry Bedingfield GoodwinFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Wadham Locke SuttonFellow
Donald William HornerFellow
William Benjamin HutchinsonFellow
Edward TroughtonFellow
Charles Clement WalkerFellow
Thomas KeigFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Sir William CubittFellow
Sir Robert PearceFellow
George James GibbsFellow
William ScottFellow
Capt. John GroverFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
James Gall InglisFellow
Arthur KennedyFellow
Arthur Huish WebberFellow
Cmdr Thomas BotelerFellow
Leslie WoolvenFellow
Humphrey Barker ChamberlinFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. James PearsonFellow
William Henry HennahFellow