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
Duke Alexander GordonFellow
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Johann Elert BodeAssociate
Marq. Pierre Simon de LaplaceAssociate
Caroline Lucretia HerschelHonorary Fellow
Abbé Henri GrégoireAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Adrien-Marie LegendreAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
Stephen GroombridgeFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
Earl George Parker (Macclesfield)Fellow
John FullerFellow
Thomas TelfordFellow
William FrendFellow
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias OlbersAssociate
Rev. William FarishFellow
William CaryFellow
M-Gen. Henry ShrapnelFellow
Jean Louis PonsAssociate
Capt. James HorsburghFellow
Thomas Wright HillFellow
James LockhartFellow
Don Felipe BauzáAssociate
Henry Thomas ColebrookeFellow
Karl Ludwig HardingAssociate
William Hyde WollastonFellow
Davies GilbertFellow
Rev. William PearsonFellow
Richard BestFellow
King Frederick VI DenmarkHonorary Fellow
Bryan DonkinFellow
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Rev. Charles TurnorFellow
William WallaceFellow
Thomas LeybournFellow
William AllenFellow
V’count Robert Saunders Dundas (Melville)Fellow
Gen. Ferdinando ViscontiAssociate
Robert StevensonFellow
Duke Augustus Frederick SussexFellow
Nathaniel BowditchAssociate
Godfrey HigginsFellow
Sir Thomas Makdougall BrisbaneFellow
George DollondFellow
Olinthus Gilbert GregoryFellow
Henry LawsonFellow
Jean-Baptiste BiotAssociate
Francis BailyFellow
R-A. Sir Francis BeaufortFellow
Stephen Peter RigaudFellow
V-Adm. William Fitzwilliam OwenFellow
Louis Hayes PetitFellow
Rev. Thomas DickFellow
Thomas JonesFellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich GreigFellow
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Thomas DonkinFellow
Johann Georg von SoldnerAssociate
Peter BarlowFellow
Sir Nicholas Conyngham TindalFellow
Capt. Henry KaterFellow
Carl Frederick GaussAssociate
R-A Sir John RossFellow
M-Gen. John Anthony HodgsonFellow
R-A Hn George Heneage Lawrence DundasFellow
Benjamin GompertzFellow
Sir Lancelot ShadwellFellow
Baron Bernhard August von LindenauAssociate
William Henry FittonFellow
Niccolò CacciatoreAssociate
Gen Sir Robert Lawrence DundasFellow
Heinrich Christian SchumacherAssociate
Gen. Sir Charles William PasleyFellow
Mary Somerville [née Fairfax, other married name Greig]Honorary Fellow
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
William Chadwell MylneFellow
Richard TaylorFellow
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
Baron Giovanni Antonio Amedeo PlanaAssociate
John DickinsonFellow
Francisco CarliniAssociate
William Devonshire SaullFellow
John LeeFellow
William Tierney ClarkFellow
Robert PorrettFellow
Bt Jonathan Frederick PollockFellow
Claude Louis MathieuAssociate
Joseph GwiltFellow
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
M-Gen. Thomas Frederick ColbyFellow
Gerard MollAssociate
R Adm. William Henry ShirreffFellow
Rev. Adam SedgwickFellow
George BishopFellow
Bt R-A Samuel John Brooke PechellFellow
Bt Robert Harry InglisFellow
Jean François AragoAssociate
Giovanni Battista AmiciAssociate
Capt. Sir John FranklinFellow