nobleman and boxer (born 1844) 6 February – Sir William Wilson Hunter, colonial administrator, statistician and historian (born 1840 in Scotland) 23 February William Butterfield, architect (born 1814) Ernest Dowson, poet (born 1867) 10 March – George James Symons, meteorologist (born 1838) 16 March – Sir Frederic William Burton, painter and curator (born 1816 in Ireland) 24 April – George Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, politician (born 1823) 4 May – Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist and archaeologist (born 1827) 28 May – Sir George Grove, writer on music and the Bible and civil engineer (born 1820) 3 June – Mary Kingsley, explorer, in Cape Colony (born 1862 14 June – Catherine Gladstone, widow of Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone and philanthropist (born 1812) 30 July – Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second eldest son of Queen Victoria, in Germany (born 1844) 28 August – Henry Sidgwick, philosopher (born 1838) 31 August – Sir John Bennet Lawes, agricultural scientist (born 1814) 19 September – Anne Beale, novelist (born 1816) 9 October – John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, landed aristocrat, industrial magnate, antiquarian, scholar, philanthropist and architectural patron (born 1847) 16 October – Sir Henry Acland, physician (born 1815) 22 November – Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer (born 1842) 29 December – John Henry Leech, entomologist (born 1862) 30 November – Oscar Wilde, playwright, writer and poet, in France (born 1854 in Ireland) See also List of British films before 1920 References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom