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Guide to the collection - J. A. Bennett, 'Catalogue of the archives and manuscripts of the Royal Astronomical Society', Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, 85 (1978), pp. 1-90 is available online
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Persons (161)
- Abney, Sir William de Wiveleslie, (1843-1920), Knight, photographic chemist
- Adams, John Couch, (1819-1892), astronomer
- Airy, Sir George Biddell, (1801-1892), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Aubert, Alexander, (1730-1805), astronomer
- Babbage, Charles, (1792-1871), mathematician
- Baily, Francis, (1774-1844), astronomer
- Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, (1840-1913), Knight, astronomer and mathematician
- Banks, Sir Joseph, (1743-1820), Knight, Baronet, naturalist
- Barnard, Edward Emerson, (1857-1923), Astronomer
- Baxendell, Joseph, (1815-1887), Meteorologist and Astronomer
- Bernaerts, Gustave Louis, (1841-1879), Astronomer
- Birt, William Radcliff, (1804-1881), astronomer
- Blagden, Sir Charles, (1748-1820), Knight Physician
- Bode, Johann Elert, (1747-1826), Astronomer
- Bonomi, Joseph, (1796-1878), Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum, sculptor, draughtsman and Egyptologist
- Bosanquet, Robert Holford MacDowell, (1841-1912), Fellow of Royal Society
- Brett, John, (1831-1902), landscape painter
- Brougham, Henry Peter, (1778-1868), 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, Lord Chancellor
- Bruhl, Hans Moritz von, (1736-1809), Count von Bruhl, German astronomer, ambassador to London
- Burney, Charles, (1726-1814), musician and author Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Burnham, Wesley Sherburne, (1838-1921), astronomer
- Burrow, Reuben, (1747-1792), Mathematician
- Capron, John Rand, (1829-1888), Lawyer and Astronomer
- Carpenter, James, (1840-1899), Astronomer
- Carrington, Richard Christopher, (1826-1875), astronomer
- Cayley, Arthur, (1821-1895), mathematician
- Challis, James, (1803-1882), Astronomer
- Chambers, George Frederick, (1841-1915), astronomer
- Chevallier, Temple, (1794-1873), astronomer
- Christie, William Henry Mahoney, (1845-1922), Astronomer
- Clarke, Alexander Ross, (1828-1914), Fellow of Royal Society
- Common, Andrew Ainslie, (1841-1903), Astronomer
- Copeland, Ralph, (1837-1905), Astronomer
- Cortie, Aloysius Laurence, (1859-1925), Astronomer
- Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois, (1865-1939), astronomer
- Darwin, Sir George Howard, (1845-1912), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Dawes, William Rutter, (1799-1868), astronomer
- Donkin, Bryan, (1768-1855), inventor and engineer
- Downing, Arthur Matthew Weld, (1850-1917), Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac
- Drew, John, (1809-1857), Astronomer
- Dreyer, John Louis Emile, (1852-1926), Astronomer
- Dunkin, Edwin, (1821-1898), Astronomer
- Dunlop, James, (1795-1848), astronomer
- Dyson, Sir Frank Watson, (1868-1939), Knight, astronomer
- Ellery, Robert Lewis John, (1827-1908), Astronomer
- Ellis, William, (1828-1916), astronomer
- Englefield, Sir Henry Charles, (1752-1822), Knight Antiquary and Scientific Writer
- Espin, Thomas Henry Espinell Compton, (1858-1934), Vicar of Towlaw Astronomer
- Evershed, John, (1864-1956), astronomer
- Fletcher, Isaac, (1827-1879), MP Coal Owner and Ironmaster
- Forbes, George, (1849-1936), engineer and astronomer
- Foster, Henry, (1796-1831), navigator
- Fowler, Alfred, (1868-1940), astrophysicist
- Freeman, Alexander, (1839-1897), Rector of Murston, Kent and astronomer
- Gill, Sir David, (1843-1914), Knight, astronomer
- Glaisher, James, (1809-1903), astronomer and meteorologist
- Grant, Robert, (1814-1892), Astronomer
- Green, Nathaniel Everett, (1823-1899), Painting Teacher and Astronomer
- Grove-Hills, Edmond Herbert, (1864-1922), astronomer
- Grubb, Sir Howard, (1844-1931), Knight Scientist
- Hardy, Robert William Hale, (c1794-1871), naval officer and author
- Harley, Robert, (1828-1910), Congregational Minister mathematician
- Hartnup, John, (1806-1885), Astronomer
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, (1750-1848), astronomer
- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, (1792-1871), 1st Baronet, astronomer
- Herschel, Sir William, (1738-1822), Knight, astronomer and musician
- Hind, John Russell, (1823-1895), Astronomer
- Hinks, Arthur Robert, (1873-1945), Astronomer and Geographer
- Hirst, Thomas Archer, (1830-1892), Mathematician
- Hodgson, Richard, (1804-1874), publisher and astronomer
- Holden, Edward Singleton, (1846-1914), Astronomer
- Hornsby, Thomas, (1733-1810), Astronomer
- Howlett, Frederick, (1821-1908), Astronomer
- Huggins, Sir William, (1824-1910), Knight, astronomer
- Hussey, Thomas John, (fl 1826-1851), rector and astronomer Hayes, Kent
- Johnson, Manuel John, (1805-1859), Astronomer
- Johnson, Samuel Jenkins, (1845-1905), astronomer
- Knobel, Edward Ball, (1841-1930), Astronomer and Orientalist
- Knott, George, (1835-1894), Astronomer
- Komarzewski, Jan Chrzciciel, (1748-1809), Polish astronomer
- Lalande, Joseph Jerome le Francais de, (1732-1807), French astronomer
- Lassell, William, (1799-1880), Astronomer
- Lee, John, (1783-1866), antiquary and astronomer
- Lindsay, James Ludovic, (1847-1913), 26th Earl of Crawford
- Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman, (1836-1920), Knight Astronomer
- Lowe, Edward Joseph, (1825-1900), Meteorologist and Botanist
- Lubbock, Sir John William, (1803-1865), 3rd Baronet, astronomer and mathematician
- Main, Robert, (1808-1878), astronomer
- Makdougall-Brisbane, Sir Thomas, (1773-1860), Baronet General astronomer colonial governor
- Marth, Albert, (1828-1897), Astronomer
- Maskelyne, Nevil, (1732-1811), astronomer
- Maunder, Edward Walter, (1851-1928), Astronomer
- McClean, Frank, (1837-1904), Civil Engineer and Astronomer
- McLaren, John, (1831-1910), Lord McLaren Scottish Judge and MP
- Molesworth, Percy Braybrooke, (1867-1908), Astronomer
- Morgan, Augustus de, (1806-1871), mathematician
- Nevill, Edmund Neville, (1849-1940), astronomer
- Newall, Hugh Frank, (1857-1944), Astrophysicist
- Newbegin, Algernon Montagu, (1885-1965), Astronomer
- Newcomb, Simon, (1835-1909), Mathematician and Astronomer
- Oudemans, Jean Abraham Chretien, (1827-1906), Dutch Astronomer
- Parsons, Laurence, (1840-1908), 4th Earl of Rosse, astronomer
- Penrose, Francis Cranmer, (1817-1903), Architect Archaeologist and Astronomer
- Perry, Stephen Joseph, (1833-1889), Astronomer and Jesuit
- Pigott, Edward, (1753-1825), Astronomer
- Pigott, Nathaniel, (1725-1804), Astronomer
- Plummer, William Edward, (1849-1928), Astronomer
- Pogson, Norman Robert, (1829-1891), Astronomer
- Prince, Charles Leeson, (1821-1899), Surgeon and Meteorologist
- Pritchard, Charles, (1808-1893), Astronomer
- Proctor, Richard Anthony, (1837-1888), Astronomer
- Rambaut, Arthur Alcock, (1857-1923), Astronomer
- Ranyard, Arthur Cowper, (1845-1894), Astronomer
- Reynolds, John Henry, (1874-1949), astronomer
- Roberts, Isaac, (1829-1904), Astronomer
- Robertson, Abraham, (1751-1826), Astronomer and Mathematician
- Robinson, Thomas Romney, (1792-1882), astronomer
- Roscoe, Sir Henry Enfield, (1833-1915), Knight, chemist
- Routh, Edward John, (1831-1907), Mathematician
- Rue, Warren de la, (1815-1889), chemist and astronomer
- Russell, Henry Chamberlaine, (1836-1907), Astronomer
- Sadler, Herbert, (1856-1898), astronomer
- Sampson, Ralph Allen, (1866-1939), astronomer
- Schroeter, Johann Hieronymus, (1745-1816), Astronomer
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian, (1780-1850), Danish Astronomer
- Schuster, Sir Arthur, (1851-1934), Knight, physicist
- Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich, (1789-1875), Astronomer
- Sheepshanks, Richard, (1794-1855), astronomer
- Sidgreaves, Walter, (1837-1919), Astronomer
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi, (1819-1900), astronomer
- Smyth, William Henry, (1788-1865), Admiral, scientist and antiquary
- South, Sir James, (1785-1867), Knight, astronomer
- Spottiswoode, William, (1825-1883), Mathematician and Physicist
- Steavenson, William Herbert, (1894-1975), surgeon and astronomer
- Stewart, Balfour, (1828-1887), physicist and meteorologist
- Stone, Edward James, (1831-1897), astronomer
- Stoney, George Johnstone, (1826-1911), Physicist
- Stratford, William Samuel, (1791-1853), Astronomer
- Stratton, Frederick John Marrion, (1881-1960), astrophysicist
- Swift, Lewis, (1820-1913), Astronomer
- Talmage, Charles George, (d 1886), Astronomer
- Tebbutt, John, (1834-1916), Astronomer and Meteorologist
- Tennant, James Francis, (1829-1915), Soldier and Astronomer
- Terby, Francois Joseph Charles, (1846-1911), Astronomer
- Thompson, Silvanus Phillips, (1851-1916), Physicist
- Todd, Sir Charles, (1826-1910), Knight Astronomer
- Todhunter, Isaac, (1820-1884), mathematician
- Toynbee, Henry, (1819-1909), Astronomer
- Turner, Herbert Hall, (1861-1930), astronomer and seismologist
- Vince, Samuel, (1749-1821), Mathematician and Astronomer
- Walker, Charles Vincent, (1812-1882), Electrical Engineer
- Watson, Sir William, (1744-1824), Knight Physician and Astronomer
- Webb, Thomas William, (1807-1885), Astronomer
- Whipple, George Matthews, (1842-1893), physicist
- Whittaker, Sir Edmund Taylor, (1873-1956), Knight, mathematician and astronomer
- Williams, Arthur Stanley, (1861-1938), astronomer
- Williams, John, (1797-1874), antiquary and astronomer
- Wilson, James Maurice, (1836-1931), Schoolmaster Scientist Antiquary Canon of Worcester
- Wilson, Patrick, (1743-1811), astronomer
- Wilson, William Edward, (1851-1908), Astronomer and Physicist
- Wollaston, Francis, (1731-1815), astronomer, author, Rector of Chislehurst