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
Georges LecointeAssociate
Walter Ernst FrickeAssociate
Truman Henry SaffordAssociate
Albert Abraham MichelsonAssociate
Charles TrépiedAssociate
Bohumil SternberkAssociate
Eduard HeisAssociate
Baron Ercole DembowskiAssociate
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig CharlierAssociate
Aristarch Apollonievic BelopolskyAssociate
Frederick Hanley SearesAssociate
Christian August Friedrich PetersAssociate
Benjamin Apthorp GouldAssociate
Edwin Brant FrostAssociate
Francisco Miranda da Costa LôboAssociate
Ernesto CapocciAssociate
Hermann Albert KoboldAssociate
Pietro Angelo SecchiAssociate
Christian Heinrich Friedrich PetersAssociate
Pierre Henri PuiseuxAssociate
Ottaviano Fabrizio MossottiAssociate
Johann Karl Friedrich ZöllnerAssociate
Jules Henri PoincaréAssociate
Alexander Alexandrovich MikhailovAssociate
Simon NewcombAssociate
Friedrich Robert HelmertAssociate
Wilhelm FoersterAssociate
André Joseph Alexandre CouderAssociate
Solon Irving BaileyAssociate
Adolphus Cornelius PetersenAssociate
Adm. Ernest Amédée Barthélémy MouchezAssociate
Marie Paul Auguste Charles FabryAssociate
Antonio CollaAssociate
John Macon ThomeAssociate
Siméon Denis PoissonAssociate
George Washington HoughAssociate
Paul GuthnickAssociate
Jean Marie François Joseph CoulombAssociate
Edouard Benjamin BaillaudAssociate
Hugo von SeeligerAssociate
Francisco CarliniAssociate
Iosif Samuilovich ShklovskiiAssociate
Johann Joseph von LittrowAssociate
Marian Albertovich Kowalksi (Kovalsky)Associate
Charles Greeley AbbotAssociate
Svein RosselandAssociate
Lambert Adolphe Jacques QueteletAssociate
Theodor Ritter von OppolzerAssociate
Cmdr Matthew Fontaine MauryAssociate
Sears Cook WalkerAssociate
Karl Ludwig von LittrowAssociate
Johann Heinrich von MädlerAssociate
Johan August Hugo GyldénAssociate
Bruno Benedetto RossiAssociate
Count Barnaba OrianiAssociate
Felix-Victor MauvaisAssociate
Baron Marie Charles Théodore DamoiseauAssociate
Hubert Anson NewtonAssociate
John NewtonFellow
James LockhartFellow
Joseph MaguireFellow
Rev. Samuel Jenkins JohnsonFellow
John Baboneau Nickterlien HennesseyFellow
Henden Egerton HoughtonFellow
Guro Else GjellestadFellow
Sir George Stuart ForbesFellow
Philip Herbert CowellFellow
Charles Edward BurtonFellow
James Robert ChristieFellow
Thomas Lawrence BennettFellow
Francis BailyFellow
Edward William BrayleyFellow
John Henry ReynoldsFellow
Peter MolnarFellow
Rev. Thomas William WebbFellow
John Webb WoollgarFellow
Joseph Bernard Godsell TurnerFellow
Sir Charles Piazzi SmythFellow
Roberto RossiFellow
Francis John SellersFellow
James PettitFellow
Francis Henry Samuel OrpenFellow
Earl George Parker MacclesfieldFellow
William Henry MawFellow
Peter KennedyFellow
John HippisleyFellow
George InnesFellow
Robert GrantFellow
Daniel Lester III HarrisFellow
Rev. Fearon FallowsFellow
Herbert Henry FurnerFellow
John Benjamin DancerFellow
Archibald Spencer DrummondFellow
Charles CarpmaelFellow
Andrew Ainslie CommonFellow
George (= Jiri) AlterFellow
James Stark BrowneFellow
Bruce SwinyardFellow
Rupert WildtFellow
George Eric Deacon AlcockFellow