Abolition Act, use of the pillory is limited to punishment for perjury. The British found Banjul, The Gambia. A British expedition explores up from the mouth of the Congo River. The Elgin Marbles are purchased by the nation from Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, for the British Museum. The Nelson Monument, Edinburgh, on Calton Hill, is completed. Year Without a Summer. Publications The Prisoner of Chillon, and other poems, by Lord Byron. Kubla Khan, poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", sonnet by John Keats. Glenarvon, novel by Lady Caroline Lamb. The Antiquary, The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality, novels by Walter Scott. Births 3 February – Frederick William Robertson, Anglican preacher (died 1853) 22 February – Thomas Gambier Parry, fresco painter and art collector (died 1888) 17 April - Thomas Hazlehurst, chemical manufacturer and Methodist chapel builder (died 1876) 21 April – Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1855) 29 April – (Charles William) Shirley Brooks, journalist (died 1874) 30 June – Richard Lindon, developer of the rugby ball (died 1887) 16 August – Charles Vaughan, Dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff (died 1897) Deaths 5 January – George Prévost, general, colonial administrator (born 1767 in British North America) 27 January – Viscount Hood, admiral (born 1724) 22 February – Adam Ferguson, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historian (born 1723) 5 July – Dorothea Jordan, actress, mistress of King William IV, died in France (born 1761 in Ireland) 7 July – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright (born 1751 in Ireland) 22 September – Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet, diplomat (born 1731) 27 September – Edward Charles Howard, chemical engineer (born 1774) 15 December – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, statesman and scientist (born 1753) See also 1816 in Scotland References Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom