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
Paul Henri StroobantAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
William Wilson MorganAssociate
Eduard LutherAssociate
Jean François AragoAssociate
Adolf Christian Wilhelm SchurAssociate
Paul Willard MerrillAssociate
Bertil LindbladAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Yngve ÖhmanAssociate
Benjamin PeirceAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Friedrich TietjenAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
George William HillAssociate
William Joseph HusseyAssociate
Harlow ShapleyAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Ludwig Franz Benedikt BiermannAssociate
Carl Nicolaus Adalbert KruegerAssociate
Lewis BossAssociate
William Lewis ElkinAssociate
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Karl SchwarzschildAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Solomon Borisovich Pikel’nerAssociate
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Lorenzo RespighiAssociate
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Boris Vasilievich KukarkinAssociate
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Friedrich Magnus SchwerdAssociate
Augustus Ludovick BuschAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Karl Hermann StruveAssociate
Friedrich KüstnerAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Camille Guillaume BigourdanAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Felix Andries Vening MeineszAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Dirk BrouwerAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Annibale RiccòAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
François Félix TisserandAssociate
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Sir George Biddell AiryFellow
Charles Edward BarnsFellow
Frederick William HenkelFellow
Joseph HoughFellow
Paul RuffleFellow
Edwin Wilbur, Jr RiceFellow
Charles Michie SmithFellow
Rev. Henry Halford JonesFellow
Rev. Edward John StutterFellow
Rev. Thomas LaingFellow
John WoodrowFellow
Alfred Allinson BourneFellow
Thomas Flower EllisFellow
David Ross FotheringhamFellow
Louis Pascal [Luigi Pasquale] CasellaFellow
Earl Anthony Ashley Cooper (Shaftesbury)Fellow
Henry PerigalFellow
Charles Leeson PrinceFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Capt. George Tyrrell McCawFellow
Annie Scott Dill Maunder [née Russell]Fellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Sir Charles ToddFellow
Henry Hayden WatersFellow
Rev. Henry Adams Sergison AtwoodFellow
Ernest Agar BeetFellow
William Russell HindmarshFellow
Rev. Richard Ernest IngramFellow
John D. BarrowFellow
William ScottFellow
Charles ShearmanFellow
Phillip D. SternFellow
Henry Alfred LenehanFellow
Charles Heard WildFellow
Gerald James WhitrowFellow
David Scatcherd BrownFellow
Samuel FellowsFellow
Thomas GallowayFellow
Jack Gordon MillerFellow
Charles Pritchard ButlerFellow
Robert Albert NewingFellow
Josiah Latimer ClarkFellow