Obituaries | The Royal Astronomical Society

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)

Name	Born	Died	Elected	Membership status
John Franklin-Adams	05-08-1843	13-08-1912	09-04-1897	Fellow
William Sadler Franks	26-04-1851	19-06-1935	09-01-1880	Fellow
Julius Heinrich G. Franz	28-06-1847	28-01-1913	08-06-1906	Associate
Joseph von Fraunhofer	06-03-1787	07-06-1826	14-01-1825	Associate
Rev. Alexander Freeman	28-01-1838	12-06-1897	08-01-1864	Fellow
Joseph H. Freeman	18-04-1845	05-02-1906	10-11-1871	Fellow
William Frend	22-11-1757	21-02-1841	09-03-1832	Fellow
Walter Ernst Fricke	01-04-1915	21-03-1988	09-03-1973	Associate
Gen. Edward Charles Frome	07-01-1802	12-02-1890	11-05-1838	Fellow
Edwin Brant Frost	18-07-1866	14-05-1935	12-06-1908	Associate
George Frost	25-12-1798	23-12-1852	08-04-1831	Fellow
William Frost	19-08-1805	10-03-1884	13-04-1838	Fellow
Henry Reginald Fry		27-07-1950	11-04-1919	Fellow
John Fuller	20-02-1757	11-04-1834	14-12-1821	Fellow
Thomas Frederick Furber	13-05-1855	07-10-1924	10-04-1896	Fellow
Herbert Henry Furner	18-09-1873	26-06-1952	14-04-1905	Fellow
Caroline Ellen Furness	24-06-1869	09-02-1936	09-06-1922	Fellow
Maj. Gerald Edward Galbraith	05-12-1862	17-08-1934	10-06-1910	Fellow
William Galbraith	23-04-1786	27-10-1850	12-02-1841	Fellow
Walter Frederick Gale	27-11-1865	01-06-1945	12-05-1893	Fellow
Johann Gottfried Galle	09-06-1812	10-07-1910	12-05-1848	Associate
Thomas Galloway	26-02-1796	01-11-1851	11-01-1828	Fellow
Jean Felix Adolphe Gambart	12-05-1800	23-07-1836	09-06-1826	Associate
Maj. Arthur ffolliott Garrett	27-04-1875	28-03-1920	13-01-1905	Fellow
Thomas Gaskin	12-05-1810	31-03-1887	13-01-1837	Fellow
Annibale de Gasparis	09-11-1819	21-03-1892	13-12-1850	Associate
Charles Henry Gatty	16-03-1836	12-12-1903	13-05-1870	Fellow
Carl Frederick Gauss	30-04-1777	23-02-1855	12-01-1821	Associate
Jean Alfred Gautier	19-07-1793	30-11-1881	11-01-1822	Associate
Edward Gay	05-12-1837	03-04-1908	13-12-1872	Fellow
Sidney Bertram Gaythorpe	05-02-1880	25-11-1964	13-02-1920	Fellow
John Edward Geake	01-04-1925	03-06-1998	11-12-1953	Fellow
Murray Geddes		23-07-1944	11-01-1935	Fellow
William Edgar Geil	01-10-1865	11-04-1925	12-01-1906	Fellow
Hubert Gent	26-02-1922	07-10-1997	08-12-1961	Fellow
Henry Tresawna Gerrans		20-06-1921	09-05-1902	Fellow
George James Gibbs		22-02-1947	12-01-1912	Fellow
William Bolger Gibbs		16-08-1925	09-01-1857	Fellow
Algernon Charles Gifford	29-03-1861	27-02-1948	08-01-1915	Fellow
James William Gifford	29-02-1856	27-10-1930	08-01-1909	Fellow
Davies Gilbert	06-03-1767	24-12-1839	08-02-1820	Fellow
Rev. William Robinson Gilby		23-02-1848	10-01-1834	Fellow
William Giles	30-12-1798	30-09-1856	11-02-1853	Fellow
Sir David Gill	12-06-1843	24-01-1914	13-12-1867	Fellow
James Gill	14-05-1840	09-01-1900	13-01-1888	Fellow
Guro Else Gjellestad	11-08-1914	11-01-1972	09-10-1953	Fellow
Murray Gladstone	14-02-1816	23-08-1875	11-05-1860	Fellow
James Glaisher	07-04-1809	07-02-1903	14-05-1841	Fellow
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher	05-11-1848	07-12-1928	14-04-1871	Fellow
John Glaisher		16-05-1846	14-02-1845	Fellow
Joseph Gledhill	17-11-1837	20-03-1906	08-05-1874	Fellow
Brig. Edward Aubrey Glennie	18-07-1889	15-02-1980	13-01-1933	Fellow
Dr Benjamin Godfrey		22-11-1872	12-02-1858	Fellow
Rev. Nathaniel Stedman Godfrey		26-10-1883	09-12-1864	Fellow
Raymond Hill Godfrey	14-02-1859	05-11-1925	14-04-1893	Fellow
John George Cockburn Curtis Godsman	06-04-1817	05-12-1879	10-01-1845	Fellow
William Godward		19-05-1897	12-01-1872	Fellow
Rev. Edmund Goetz	10-11-1865	19-08-1933	13-11-1903	Fellow
Bt Park Goff	12-02-1871	14-04-1939	11-02-1916	Fellow
George Ridsdale Goldsbrough	19-05-1881	26-05-1963	10-12-1915	Fellow
Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt	04-08-1807	15-02-1851	12-05-1848	Associate
Hermann Goldschmidt	17-06-1802	30-08-1866	11-05-1866	Associate
Benjamin Gompertz	05-03-1779	15-07-1865	29-02-1820	Fellow
Walter Goodacre		01-05-1938	09-01-1885	Fellow
John James Lewis Goodridge		13-03-1936	11-01-1889	Fellow
Henry Bedingfield Goodwin		24-02-1927	14-02-1919	Fellow
Duke Alexander Gordon	18-06-1743	17-06-1827	29-02-1820	Fellow
Thomas Gordon		28-02-1909	08-05-1891	Fellow
John Ellard Gore	01-06-1845	18-07-1910	08-03-1878	Fellow
Sandford Gorton		14-02-1879	08-06-1860	Fellow
Eugen von Gothard	31-05-1857	29-05-1909	09-11-1883	Fellow
Benjamin Apthorp Gould	27-09-1824	26-11-1896	12-01-1855	Associate
Samuel Forster Grace		30-04-1937	11-04-1930	Fellow
Bt Cyril C. Graham		09-05-1895	12-11-1858	Fellow
Robert Graham		16-12-1864	13-06-1845	Fellow
Robert Arthur Graham	14-05-1805	22-03-1856	13-06-1845	Fellow
Richard Francis Turney Granger	07-02-1900	19-01-1948	14-06-1940	Fellow
Robert Grant	17-06-1814	24-10-1892	14-06-1850	Fellow
William Gravatt	14-07-1806	30-05-1866	12-04-1843	Fellow
Capt. Thomas Graves		28-08-1856	13-01-1826	Fellow
Peter Gray		17-01-1887	12-03-1847	Fellow
M-Gen. William du Gard Gray	09-09-1856	02-06-1932	08-05-1914	Fellow
William Michael Herbert Greaves	10-09-1897	24-12-1955	11-11-1921	Fellow
Henry Ernest Green	02-08-1889	18-09-1944	08-03-1935	Fellow
Nathaniel Everett Green	21-08-1823	10-11-1899	12-02-1875	Fellow
Samuel Morris Green	10-08-1921	06-06-1944	10-02-1939	Fellow
J Mayo Greenberg	14-01-1922	29-11-2001	10-01-1975	Fellow
Lieut. Augustus Percival Greene		02-12-1845	13-11-1840	Fellow
John Anderton Greenwood	16-01-1864	02-07-1941	13-11-1896	Fellow
Abbé Henri Grégoire	04-12-1750	20-05-1831	08-01-1830	Associate
Benjamin Gregory	02-12-1839	20-10-1916	10-01-1913	Fellow
Christopher Clive Langton Gregory	13-05-1892	24-11-1964	09-12-1921	Fellow
Olinthus Gilbert Gregory	29-01-1774	02-02-1841	20-03-1820	Fellow
Sir Richard Arman Gregory	29-01-1864	15-09-1952	14-02-1890	Fellow
Adm. Alexis Samuilovich Greig	18-09-1775	30-01-1845	11-01-1822	Fellow
Cmdr. Edward John Griffin	19-09-1848	07-07-1901	14-01-1898	Fellow
Idwal Owain Griffith	23-09-1880	22-09-1941	12-11-1926	Fellow
John Edwards Griffith		04-07-1933	08-02-1878	Fellow
John Griffiths	15-06-1952	09-04-2010	10-12-2004	Fellow
John Grigg	04-06-1838	20-06-1920	08-06-1906	Fellow