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
George Ellery HaleAssociate
Henry Augustus RowlandAssociate
Urbain Jean Joseph Le VerrierAssociate
Hervé Étienne Auguste Albans FayeAssociate
Heinrich Louis D’ArrestAssociate
Otto Wilhelm StruveAssociate
Marcel Gilles Jozef MinnaertAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm August ArgelanderAssociate
Asaph HallAssociate
Baron Franz Xaver von ZachAssociate
William Otto BrunnerAssociate
Guiseppe PiazziAssociate
Pierre Jules Cé+C774sar JanssenAssociate
Johann Gottfried GalleAssociate
Alfred WolferAssociate
Julius ScheinerAssociate
Ormsby MacKnight MitchelAssociate
León Herrero y GarcíaAssociate
George Phillips BondAssociate
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm KlinkerfuesAssociate
Johannes Franz HartmannAssociate
John Frederic(k) TrechselAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm BesselAssociate
Giovanni Virginio SchiaparelliAssociate
Friedrich Wilhelm Hans LudendorffAssociate
Alfred Harrison JoyAssociate
Antonio MarussiAssociate
Paul Auguste Ernest LaugierAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
William Cranch BondAssociate
Edward Charles PickeringAssociate
Jean Felix Adolphe GambartAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Hans Carl Frederik Christian SchjellerupAssociate
Samuel Alfred MitchellAssociate
Jack Meadows
Leon Knopoff
Arnold Wolfendale
David Le Conte