first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, their London home. 19 July The Isambard Kingdom Brunel-designed steamship is launched in Bristol. The first missionaries sent abroad by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints land from the United States at Liverpool. On 30 July, apostle Heber C. Kimball baptises the first English converts (George D. Watt and 8 others) in the River Ribble near Preston, Lancashire. 20 July – Euston Station, London's first mainline railway terminus, is opened. 24 July–18 August – general election results in a Whig victory. 17 August – John Kent becomes Britain's first black police officer on joining the constabulary in Carlisle. 28 August – Lea & Perrins begin making Worcestershire sauce. October – alleged first sighting of Spring-heeled Jack, in London. 9 November – stockbroker Moses Montefiore becomes the first Jew to receive a knighthood. 15 November – Isaac Pitman publishes Pitman Shorthand. Undated Burglary, arson and "shooting at" cease to be capital crimes. Joseph Paxton designs the Great Conservatory or Stove at Chatsworth House; it is the world's largest glass building at this time. Publications Richard Harris Barham's The Ingoldsby Legends 'by Thomas Ingoldsby' begin to appear in serial form in Bentley's Miscellany. Thomas Carlyle's book The French Revolution: A History. Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist appears in serial form in Bentley's Miscellany (from February). Robert Southey's "The Story of the Three Bears" appears in The Doctor. Martin Tupper's book Proverbial Philosophy. Andrew Ure's encyclopedia A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines. Births 7 January – Thomas Henry Ismay, shipowner (died 1899) 30 January – Augusta Webster, born Julia Augusta Davies, poet (died 1894) 7 February – James Murray, lexicographer (died 1915) 23 March – Charles Wyndham, actor and theatrical manager (died 1919) 5 April – Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet (died 1909) 7 April – Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, writer (died 1891) 28 May – George Ashlin, architect (died 1921) 9 June – Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, novelist and essayist (died 1919) 14 November – Lucas Barrett, naturalist (died 1862) 23 November – Joseph Leycester Lyne, Anglican Benedictine abbot (died 1908) 5 December – Richard Thomas, tin plate manufacturer (died 1916) 26 December – William Boyd Dawkins, geologist (died 1929) Deaths 20 January – Sir John Soane, British architect (born 1753) 23 January – John Field, Irish composer (born 1782) 31 January – John Rolls of The Hendre,